FBI/CIA agents, what's something that you can tell us without killing us?

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[@alansohn855]

Remember, there's no such thing as a former CIA agent.

[@Remi123-s2f]

Right!

[@SkyFyre2435]

Back when Obama was running for re-election as President, he was in my area, and was scheduled to just pass through my town on the way to his next campaign stop. Apparently he decided that same day he wanted to stop for ice cream at a little ice cream shop we have, and secret service was not exactly pleased. My classmate worked there at the time (she actually ended up serving him his ice cream), and she said they got a phone call and about 15 minutes later, the secret service showed up to inspect the place and get the identity of every employee to run background checks. And they were clearly annoyed, lol.

[@craigversheck7835]

Imagine having a warrant for something dumb (unpaid tickets) and they/you now find out. I wonder if they just shrug and only worry about the important stuff at hand, or actually make a note to follow up on them?

[@NemisCassander]

@@craigversheck7835 I'd think personal details would tip it, here. E.g., if the Secret Service detail that discovered this was having difficulties with the local police, they'd probably not say anything. OTOH, if you gave them lip or caused issues for them, yeah...

[@craigversheck7835]

Agreed!

[@redjoker365]

@@craigversheck7835They genuinely wouldn't care about that, they'd care more if there was something like a felony conviction, political protesting (edge case there), or being on an FBI watch list for terrorism. They'll also have agents monitoring the food prep anyway, so poisoning is unlikely anyway

[@Edward-cb5fc]

How dare Obama do things that normal people do in his spare time

[@Frankjc3rd]

Story 15 matches one of my own rules: The person that tells you they work for the CIA does not work for the CIA.

[@lad4830]

Usually applicable to most agencies. People just hate living boring life so they have to spark it somehow. Phrases like "you wouldn't believe what I saw" or "I used to work for" are among my favourite indicators

[@666222333111]

​@@lad4830but I used to work for is pretty valid. I used to work for Sony as QA, how is that a lie? 😂

[@lad4830]

@@666222333111 In the agencies like DBI,CIA, FSB, Interpol, Homeland, MI6, Mossad, BND, Asis etc context

[@paulpatrick1108]

precisely

[@jacksparrow3490]

​@@666222333111checking to see if the screws were tightened on the ps3 cases is a pretty mundane job though isnt it?

[@ryanhampson673]

I was a Bomb technician in the Army (EOD) and while I was in I had access to a website that cataloged all the explosive threats and incidents throughout the country. If people realized how many terror attacks are stopped everyday and swept under the rug they’d never leave their house. Here’s one, there was a plan to crash an airliner into the Golden Gate Bridge in 2002 just the same as in 9/11. The plan was discovered and stopped before it could get started but never made the news.

[@bilalabdi9148]

Really man ?

[@bilalabdi9148]

Really man ?

[@jaywilliams6499]

I doubt you were EOD. Those guys would understand the meaning of lifelong agreements and consequences

[@WackoMcGoose]

@@jaywilliams6499 Hard agree, it's just barely plausible enough sounding yet total BS to anyone that knows anything. Relatedly, one thing that _is_ true about it is, "An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks EVERYBODY."

[@ryanhampson673]

@@jaywilliams6499 class 08-60N but cool story bro.

[@leileyaravencroft]

Actually having dementia or Alzheimer's would NOT be a good thing. Although forgetting is fairly common, one symptom is being confused about times, events, and people and talking about things without restraint. So someone with either illness would be more likely to spill a secret not really forget.

[@BrightWulph]

I was just thinking this, last thing you'd want is a former CIA Agent with Alzheimer's. One minute they'd be locked in their own head, the next they could suddenly be back 30 years when they were working on some important case and think tehy're talking to a supervisor and let some plans slip.

[@TheParalax]

Calm the Islamophobia there buddy!

[@readjordan2257]

Ive known plenty in my family with Alzheimer's/Dimensia. They all knew lots of secrets. They never had the ability to communicate or be lucid enough to spill any of the secrets. The only deep secret we discovered, required several people all knowing lots of personal information about the family member coming together to piece together the cryptic and otherwise nonsense-sounding fear the family member kept crying about. It was a guilt about a child mortality she faced. This is despite the fact the real guilt shouldve been in disassociating as a parent from her other and very well alive and healthy other daughter. In short, you arent able to spill secrets when you have those diseases. Even if you did, you say so much crazy and hard-to-understand things that...its difficult to understand what is actually true from it, and when to suspect truth.

[@fleurpouvior2967]

​@@TheParalaxI'm going to guess a comment got deleted?

[@malliik_dagod1238]

@@TheParalaxhuh💀💀

[@bread9173]

The second story is basically exactly what my dad told me when he retired and I asked him. Lots of child abuse and trafficking cases which he wishes he could erase from his mind.

[@pompe221]

Re: interviewing the applicant's kindergarten teacher. Child of a retired kindergarten teacher here. Even in her 70s, my mom could probably tell you if Jonathan shared his toys as a kid, recount how many siblings he had, and pull out his kindergarten class picture.

[@WatercoolerDale]

I absolutely refuse to believe the CIA is told to drop their bags and run. That's exactly what an ex CIA agent would say.

[@EricLing64]

It probably just depends on the circumstances. If they're already in a very hostile area I imagine they won't keep anything on them they can't drop without worry anyways. All their ID's and stuff are fake and will be burned after and all that so it doesn't matter. Can't imagine a CIA agent or officer or anyone ever carrying bags of sensitive stuff to begin with. There's just no need anymore these days. All you really need is a small smartphone or whatever and a microsd card. Or they might even have smaller devices, maybe. Microsd cards are already freaking small so very easy to conceal and there's so much data you can stuff into them. The spies of yesteryear must be so envious compared to the microfilm stuff they had to work with.

[@nahuelmartinez5271]

The CIA has it own division of Spec Ops wich function as a military force for them. But the analyst in the central are pretty much nerds (in a good way) who are mentally gifted for administration, computer science, math, etc. Data in general

[@aoimitsuki9873]

Also to weigh in, anyone can apply for both Secret or Top Secret clearances. They're also pretty easy to get approved. There's a 70% approval rate for both. Unless you have anything in your history that would make you considered an intelligence liability youll probably get approved. It just costs tons of money and time to get them so it's better to either work for government or a contractor company that can sponsor you to get approved. Just having those clearances are pretty decent on your resume.

[@mikemesser4326]

Just offer an idea of the expense, a TSSCI background check in 1980-1 ran about $500k per person. Couldn't tell you how much these days.

[@fleurpouvior2967]

Don't forget the paperwork involved. Do you have your second grade teachets full name and contact info? How about the contact info of a friends parent from when you were 10? Your science teacher from your sophomore year? My dad spent days doing nothing but filling out paperwork and trying to track down phone numbers or death certificates of the people they had listed. He said his doctorate had been easier to research for, and his was on pigeon genetics.

[@redjoker365]

@@fleurpouvior2967I had a TS/SCI and you don't need that kind of info. They only care about the last 7 years of your life for most things, and the only reason you'd be going into your childhood details is if you were applying for a clearance in your late teens/early 20s because you joined the military. You'd only need more esoteric information if you're related to a foreigner. My girlfriend at the time was a citizen of China, but she was also an employee of Voice of America. I also listed a friendship with someone else who was a Chinese citizen, and his father worked for a state-owned telecom, as I was erring on the side of not knowing how the feds interpreted "working for a foreign government". What was annoying was tracking down addresses as I hadn't kept great records of my old addresses as I had moved a lot. My investigator said it was fine that I couldn't remember my exact apartment number from my college slum as the street address was fine Overall all they care about is having enough information to determine whether you're susceptible to blackmail. I was very open about past drug use and how I didn't use any more and that all my friends and family knew, so it wasn't something which could be held over my head. I also had no significant debt. I had plenty of foreign friends, which is normal for my area (lots of immigrants here), but I didn't have any close degrees of relationship with any foreign government officials to raise concerns either I don't know when your father got his clearance, but I got my TS in 2017 and got it upgraded to a TS/SCI in 2018

[@d4rks3id_14]

Secret and top secrets are gettable, SCI is lil tricky, full scope or lifestyle polygraph is a nightmare

[@StoryBird2]

My grandparents worked for the FBI but they didn't learn anything since their job was just to sort and hand over files they couldn't open

[@xxxod]

thats what they want u to think

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

They probably just told you that.

[@zehfox2719]

Grandpa was a lieutenant commander on a submarine during the heart of the Cold War. Took every secret to the grave, except one tiny detail. We adopted my sister from a Russian orphanage in the mid 2000s, some 40 years after he retired. She came from a tiny “settlement” in Siberia that was far closer to Alaska than to Moscow. His comment regarding where she was from was something along the lines of “oh we uh…yeah we got pretty close to shore there once.”

[@misaenoharafrulein7238]

You would never ever bragging around being a active/formal Agent. You are an walking Target for the enemy. You will live in permanent expectation to face retaliation from the enemy, even after decades

[@JillianSiobhanMal]

😹

[@3frenchhens818]

Thanks for the validation! I think you should instantly be cautious of anyone who brags about being a secret agent, a spy, a undercover. That's been a pick up line in more bars than I can count!

[@OverwatchSIX]

Hah, that or 'JTF/CSOR' @ Base Pet out for drinks @ the Warehouse. HAHAHA. If you know, you know.

[@3frenchhens818]

I forgot my most memorable meet-up with a bunch of Navy guys. They were swanning around, winking at each other about how they were involved in this super-secret operation. I was getting tired of them, so I thought up the lamest g>d>>>m thing I could think of, and bang! it was exactly that. Between spit takes and hyperventilating, they were demanding how I could know that. I didn't say how dumb I thought it was, just said I'd been reading old copies of Life Magazine.

[@fleurpouvior2967]

My parents aren't officers, but did work in a part of the gov that required prety high clearence, and worked with CIA. Growing up I had to know who I could say hi to if I saw them on the street, and who I could not even look at unless they said hi first. Hanging out with them, we used to play 'spot the tail' to pick out who was following us. US tends to have people in weird hats or carrying odd bags, it makes it easier to find them in cctv if something happens. Most of them are retired now, but one did tell my dad he had been under investigation because of an individual he had been assigned to interview was some big name cartel. My dad still get's followed sometimes if he goes on road trips

[@GolAcheron-fc4ug]

damn that would suck. not being able to live in complete sense of privacy lmao even knowing you did nothing wrong but there could be anyone at anytime following you around just to make sure

[@3N1StaticGaming]

I knew an Airforce vet who worked with the CIA and FBI back in the day, while he didn't tell me much give gave me an idea about what he did. Frankly, being a vet myself I asked him about it, and his response was "While most of its declassified now, I'm not really sure I can talk about the details" I then said you could always ask if it's ok to share and he looked at me with a puzzling looked and said, "I could, but I don't want to deal with that."

[@ladydais]

Have a cousin in the US Army Intelligence Division who is currently working at the pentagon at the moment. She can’t tell us what she does or even say what he has for breakfast. She basically doesn’t exist unless you have met her personally. A chameleon.

[@Modern_Monk71]

Im sorry, I just watched KFP4. I read this like po said the villainesses name.....The Chameleon

[@KrystalNCMA]

I use to work in a sales department and my experiences have been that former/retired CIA agents love, love, love to talk about all of the many things they weren't allowed to before.

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

You gonna bite off a piece of that?

[@gazoontight]

Once I was interviewed by a man from an agency that I had never heard of. An old roommate was trying to get a job in the Federal government. Sad to say, no black suit, no sunglasses, no spooky mannerisms. Chubby guy in a wrinkled dress shirt and loosened tie.

[@bettermetal8306]

What did they ask you?

[@gazoontight]

@@bettermetal8306 Very mundane stuff. How long did I know him, where did I first meet him, did I know where he went to school, just everyday things, really.

[@davidtherwhanger6795]

Story 18. Believe it. That is not the only time We or They have done something like this. A more recent event was about a year ago one of our planes flew a course in the shape of a dong pointing at Syria in general, and a base with Russian personnel in particular IIRC.

[@karl_day]

trolling the enemy is a valid tactic for this reason... How much did the soviets spend doing it vs the amount that the US/NATO spend investigating it?

[@EricLing64]

Not really, big waste of resources, and the Soviets weren't exactly known for doing things for fun. They're more into human wave tactics and stuff. If anything if they're higher ups thought they were compromised, they probably executed several people trying to find moles, or to shirk blame for failing at something or other. Hell, I'm pretty sure Putin is still doing it now. Can try asking the corpse of the boss of Wagner. That and the entire premise sounds fishy, minute differences in radio signals? That's... static.

[@KBLS267]

man I love how every reddit story is “not a cia but my dog is related to a dog that is related to a dog that owner is cia🤑🤑”

[@boofs1]

"am i the jerk for sending an airstrike to my brothers house"

[@kreemaz582]

people love to talk about others 😂

[@h0ney6unny]

In regards to the story that ends around this time 4:50 I work in a mental health facility and it has long been suspected that severe trauma could also be the cause of possibly triggering Alzheimer’s! Always found that interesting and would make it a “fun fact” when people bring up Alzheimer’s haha

[@Blalack77]

My grandpa got an offer to work for the CIA in the late 50's/early 60's (like 1958-60ish). He was in the Army in the mid to late 50's between Korea and Vietnam and he was into some kind of intelligence and/or communications where he sat with headphones and monitored signals on a radio and listened to communications and coded transmissions and such and translated and transcribed them. He said they carried like a .32 caliber pistol which was - aside from self-defense - mainly meant to commit suicide to evade capture. Seems like he said they had a .30 caliber carbine rifle/M14 too. It's weird and I'm sure if any classification ever existed, it had probably expired long ago, but he still wouldn't go into any details aside from very general stuff. I can't remember what year it was but he said they had been training and prepping specifically for Vietnam - something like they were going to fly to Germany - either as a pit stop or they were just going to stay there as like a staging area and just be ready to deploy somewhere near Vietnam in the future. I think it was either the night before or a few days before they were shipping out, I guess my grandpa and his friend were out celebrating or having one last hurrah in the US or whatever and they were driving around in his friend's car probably blasted drunk with my grandpa in the passenger seat. They ended up running off the road and hitting a tree which kind of like cut the car almost completely in half and wrapped it around the tree. I remember he had a picture of the wreck and it was pretty shocking. The friend who was driving died instantly and when the paramedics got there, they thought my grandpa was dead - and he said he pretty much completely bled out and essentially reached the point of death several times. But he survived, though his legs were shattered into tiny pieces from his feet up to his hips and he had to have rods put in his legs and he was in casts from his hips to his feet on both legs for something like 6 months. Needless to say, this knocked him out of deploying and he just stayed in the reserves for his last couple of years before leaving the military. But when he got home, he received an offer to work for the CIA making, by his account, something like 5 times or more the average salary of this area for the time. He showed me the letter and I remember seeing the offered salary and thinking that seemed almost decent even for modern times - much less the 50's. I can't remember exactly but I think it was something like $10,000-20,000 a year give or take when the average income was like $4,000-5,000ish - and probably much less being that we're from the quite poor rural Arkansas Ozarks. But my grandma was either pregnant with my dad's oldest brother or he was a newborn and my grandpa was just ready to settle down to a nice boring life and didn't accept the offer. He ended up driving a chicken truck for a while before getting his Master's degree to be a reading specialist/reading teacher. My grandpa was cool as hell - everyone said we had a lot in common and that's why we got along so well. Like he was interested in pretty much everything, where most people around here - especially in those days - just want(ed) to work, go hunting and drink or whatever - averse to intellectual stimulation. Whereas a lot of old people around here are kind of uptight, have very rigid religious views and are sort of grouchy and not really concerned with anything like art, literature and learning, my grandpa was laid back, though we're all religious he had a lot of deep thoughts and "uncomfortable" questions about religion that made some other old people kind of squirm, he was extremely smart - seemingly even a genius possibly - but he was humble about it, he was into arts and literature - even though we're all hillbillies around here - and with his Master's degree, he was just a foreign language course away from having an art degree. I'm just saying he was very unique - especially for this area and double especially for his time. He had the healthiest habits of anyone I've ever seen and expected him to make it well over 100 but he got a Hep C tainted blood transfusion in the 70's and it went undiagnosed until the 2010's and even though he got the cure, his liver was shot and he died of liver cancer - even though he never drank or smoked beyond his 20's, never did any drugs, always stayed mentally and physically active and ate mainly vegetables (he had trouble digesting meat), etc..

[@bettermetal8306]

Can I get a tldr

[@freedom-verity]

@@bettermetal8306 no.

[@diegoguillen4747]

I ain't reading all that, oversimplifie it.

[@slightlyseen6767]

My father retired fromThe Agency after 31 years. We had a talk a few years ago, and the message i received from that conversation was- all the times i did sneaky stuff as a kid, he let me get away with.

[@Chemrmnce1234]

what I don't understand, is that if psychiatrists are bound by patient confidentiality, then how would the coworkers know you are seeing them unless you tell them yourself?

[@KCBfly25]

It would be noted in a file that you saw one, but the psych isn't allowed to give any info on what you said, unless you are a clear danger to yourself or others. Sometimes, the psych is "in-house," so it's easy for anyone to see that you went to their office, & if it's elsewhere, word gets around, even though it's not supposed to.

[@Heavenly_Fury]

"he walked to the door of the psych office"

[@arwo1143]

I’m a Kindergarten teacher We remember them all… and we can tell you a lot about them

[@LongDongJohnson0705]

I highly doubt an intelligence agent would be trained to "drop bags and run"...drop potential sensitive material and run...great training

[@sassykaira]

We got shamed for seeking help in mental health while I was active duty, too. From what I hear, it's not as bad now, which I'm so thankful for. Edit:typos

[@redjoker365]

Things really changed after Iraq

[@paolochang4142]

i can imagine the soviet general who ordered the sickle and hammer thing having a good laugh while drinking vodka

[@MagicalMaster]

I can explain the refusal to go to therapy thing. Most people are of the very stupid mindset that if a problem cannot be seen then it's not a real problem. My own family hasn't outright said this, but it's very much the vibe I get from then when I bring up my Autism.

[@thatonegirlelaine]

I think though that for people in that line of work it's more about letting something slip. I had a clearance back in the early 90s, and you're indoctrinated to not talk about where you work, what you do. You couldn't even wear your badge outside of the building. Losing your job, facing imprisonment, and huge fines is a huge deterrent for spilling the beans. So, even though the agency provides psych services, it's counterproductive.

[@diegoguillen4747]

Autigga

[@darknessblades]

I think for the Russian one they have small dotted markers on the floor where everybody needs to stand

[@Kas_Styles]

8:40 I love osint! Its my favorite thing to learn about. Im in the cybersecurity community. Not anything gov related.

[@backinyourcommentsectionag3191]

osint my beloved its great to learn how horribly obvious people's existences are on the internet! the saying "what happens on the internet stays on the internet" is all too painfully true lol using some real skid tools like sherlock and whatnot were some of my favorite "party tricks" in highschool too I did get into cybersec specifically because I wanted to be like the cool watch dogs man xD

[@nidodson]

Yup, definitely leaked information in this video that's highly classified. I'll add an element to the one that caught my attention the most, that resolution with night vision even. (Was asked to help figure out a solution for the project unofficially, and hence never signed paperwork to never talk about it.)

[@geraldgrenier8132]

My Dad was Miltary Intelligence during Vietnam, the most I know about his time was he was stationed at listening post, that when the was alert at their primers his role was sop was to make sure his ID bad was clip to his chest, secure materials then get to his evacuate spot. And that he came home knowing to cook authentic tai food.

[@thatonegirlelaine]

I'm surprised you know even that much. My dad was USAF in logistics and the most he talked about Vietnam is that there were a lot of bicycles around and that he didn't like Vietnamese food. He was there during the TET Offensive and it was really bad. That war was fucked.

[@herpagondaderpalice]

10:20 no, it’s to check if the kid was a little psychopath back then and is just hiding it now. I won’t say why I know that lol

[@randomcrap4230]

Assisted living worker here. Having alzheimers/dementia doesnt work like that. It mostly effects the short term memory, the brain's abilities to form NEW memories. This is why they can tell you every detail of a book they enjoyed 40 years ago but can't tell you what they are for breakfast 40 minutes ago. Dementia patients often get to the point that they dont recognize their adult children anymore and sometimes dont even recognize themselves in a mirror, but think any small child walking by is their child instead. In their minds, it is still 1962, they are in their prime and they need to go pick up their children from school or go to work. So if someone with major secrets like this had dementia/alzheimer's it would most definitely not be a good thing, as they are kore likely to think they are at work or speaking to coworkers and would spill everything. The only good thing would be that most people around them by that point would be so used to hearing random rambling stories that don't make sense that they would probably just not believe the secrets anyway. 😂

[@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

All those poor officers and agents who become alcoholics because of the knowledge of all the US (war) crimes all over the world. You can almost feel sympathy for them.

[@Nomenius1]

the one about kennedy and the one about the hammer and sickle were awesome.

[@relevancparticipant]

This vid is my second of yours. ( I'm on a Reddit-Stories-Trip again) Thanks for featuring Minecraft -Parcours as Background-Playback. It reminded about how much i actually like these Maps and Playthroughs of them. So thumbs to you and cred to the Folx behind these Map-Creations. 😊😉

[@boofs1]

lil bro can't spell parkour 💀

[@RainRaiHan-cz9be]

Man when you run out of interesting things to find out and resort with this

[@InfinteIdeas]

People don't go to the therapist because they're afraid they're going to get fired, not because they don't want to have a therapist.

[@mcb187]

The hammer and sickle shaped line… I can totally believe this, honestly. Doing shit like that to piss the Emily off has been around for ages. It’s not new. And it wasn’t the last time something like that happened either, I remember seeing a US military aircraft drawing a duck and balls pointing to some place in the Middle East. Shit like this does happen. I think the most believable story here though is probably the Nixon one. I could totally see that happening.

[@tejaswoman]

Definitely happened. Chuck Colson wrote about it in his book _Born Again_ 😊, back around 1976 or so.

[@mikemesser4326]

I could recount plenty of stories. Hmm, maybe the time I was asked to abandon watching Soviet MiG 25 going after the SR-71 ... to watch totally routing training activities of MiG 23s .. well over 150 miles away ... (Yes, there was a good reason, but still ...) But here is a better story. I was watching some slightly unusual activity staged out of a heli base near Berlin. They had sent out an Mi-8 that I knew was tasked for photo recon. Well, the heli started heading right for our collection site ... and I made the mistake of announcing this fact. The idiots of my unit ran outside to wave up at the heli. (Facepalm moment). I ended up apologizing to my Lt and Major for opening my mouth. I had just expected more intelligence from my fellow unit members.

[@UnicornOfDepression]

If you are new to law enforcement, unfortunately, expect to see lots of CP. Especially in the federal agencies(FBI, DIA, DHS, CIA, etc.).

[@OverwatchSIX]

Today on adderall & Imaginations running deep on Reddit we bring to you:

[@SvenFoxx33]

And with that story about Russia screwing with Nato with operator keys, I now know beyond a shadow of a doubt all the Classified agencies of every nation probably alleviate boredom by pranking each other.

[@bombsity2]

I couldn't be a fbi agent, imma be at a raffle and write my name as "ur fbi agent 😏"

[@lucipurr8020]

'people who are apart of these orgs, tell us stuff' *every story starts with "my great grandpas sons ex wife worked there"

[@debbiefiuza]

People are still people and will let slip things.

[@STQ175]

I held a TS/SCI when I was in service and what the guy said in story 12 is 100% correct. And story 15 is not true at all about the secrecy of CIA officers. Like mentioned not everyone that works for the CIA is “James Bond.” I have two friends both of which’s parents (both mom and dad) work for the CIA and it’s not exactly a secret. The one friends father was even a ground branch guy from pre-9/11 WELL into the GWOT. It’s also important to note comparing FBI agents and CIA officers is like comparing apples to oranges. They aren’t really the same at all. One is a law enforcement agency and the other is an intelligence agency

[@Plaprad]

Probably not going to be noticed, but the one about the Soviet radios reminded me of something. There was a similar situation in the Pacific in WWII. While we had cracked some of the Japanese codes, most we didn't for most of the war. Some were unbroken after the war. The Navy also didn't have the codebreakers the British had because of budgets. One thing we DID have, were awesome radio operators. Signals were sent in morse back then, so all signals except short range stuff, was just dots and dashes. American operators would listen in to Japanese broadcasts so much that they started to recognize different operators, and worked out where they were stationed. I think it was the battle of Midway where they started picking up traffic suddenly. No one knew what was going on and they were working to figure out why so many signals had started appearing. Then, one of the operators was around some of the brass when a signal came in. The brass were discussing what it could be when the operator just said "Oh, that's the Akagi. I'd recognize her operators transmissions anywhere." They legit figured out most of the Japanese fleet because our guys had heard so many transmissions they knew who was sending them. There was also the story about the "water issues" on Midway as well.

[@theodreer1356]

0:24 Of course we wil! They can't tell us they work for FBI or CIA hahahaha

[@HalloweenR5]

in reference to Alzheimer's, it could potentially be very dangerous. My mom is in the early pre-diagnosed stage (it runs in my family) and she misremembers stuff and shares secrets all the time. Most people think it's just being very forgetful, but omg it's so much worse

[@Palidor19]

What amazes me is they’re are still people wanting to join these organizations. With such a high turnover I’m shocked they still have the manpower to keep it active

[@srose1088]

Wasn't Tokio Rose's job to antagonize to military over radio? ...Why is this a flex?

[@ZA-mb5di]

My late grandfather was in the CIA actually, but I know literally nothing because he didn't like me I think

[@aliecarey]

Lol Grandpa had his family going 😂😂😂

[@RamenCupNood]

Took my first dab with a dude who "was in Bosnia" and that was all he'd say about it but he made us turn off our phones and he unplugged his xbox kinect before he'd even talk about the dabs. I was young and he was recently retired.

[@plastiqueneurosis]

Sworn to secrecy unless told to brag to bring other information to light that may or may not lead to a case they’re trying to solve. In which they’d use proxies and other things to hide their location.

[@Jherick5954]

At the job I have now, there is a mental health program where as an employee I can speak with a counselor. I'm not sure how the whole thing works. I was offered it not long ago, and I declined. I want to accept help, but I have seen it so many times, employers will fire the person who's voicing their problem, instead of actually fixing the problem. So I chose to be quiet and smile and say I am fine. Maybe I'm being paranoid, idk

[@solomonrivers5639]

Story #3 I never knew the CIA was trained by France

[@LongDongJohnson0705]

My uncles friend cousins daughters husband's brother worked for Cia and told me...

[@Alex-dr2lp]

Good video.

[@mc75cruiser92]

as a russian i find the russian parts of the video hilarious, albeit feels a bit offensive, i love it lmao

[@NRB_EndArc]

My dad has Secret clearance and I know absolutely nothing. He was a colonel in the military and was in the military for a total of 22 years. He was very good at his job and went up in the ranks quicker than most. He tells us some stories (mostly funny ones or ones when he was in the hospital which were terrible since he worked for a bit in the black area: the people that will die and there is nothing they could do about it. One guy came in and screamed with his head in my dad’s hands for 4 hours until he died). My dad did say that the last person he saw die was an 18 year old who got engaged the week before. We can’t be told much about his clearance. My dad did also know someone who has Top Secret clearance though. Wish I could pick his brain.

[@lydiapetra1211]

Didn't get any stories but understand...

[@Ibetalkinvidyagames]

Hilariously, watching the news is one of the most unreliable ways to gather information for the day to day person, and that's what most of the analysts do. Tricking themselves into thinking something is going on.

[@HeliPotter2000]

Story 18 is wild, the soviet russians just trolling around lmao

[@joeygames2664]

My dad is I high school teacher and has been interview by the fbi multiple times for reference checks on former students that are applying for high level security clearances

[@sandhilltucker]

10:00 You really gotta stop telling people Stan!

[@Heavenly_Fury]

10:40 this is actually true I know because my teacher's son is a Marine he wanted to be the one on the president detail and she told about the insane back ground check (they went to her neighbors as well). It came up in conversation because we were talk about the FBI and spy stuff

[@Bilsuburbians]

There was a story about a little boy that want to avenge his killed/wiped out family. Turns out that his brother did all the killing in his entire village. When the boy has grow up, he joins an undercover/secret external military forces outside the country/national. When the time has come, the boy took his chance to revenge on his brother. And found out that every killing necessary is an order by a secret service in the governments nation. But the hands that doing dirty is owned by his only brother, stated by his own government for the peaceful future to the nation. Its the Uchiha lore.😂

[@damienmorgan525]

What caption software is being used in this video?

[@Unchained_Alice]

Reddit don't answer a question when you haven't had that job challenge

[@vinylpuma1]

For the teacher, more likely than not, they were either on the applicant's contact list as they maintained a relationship with them, or they had another teacher mention that they had the same student, and so were tangentially interviewed. Also, while the interviewer is in a suit, and you are left with no question as to the purpose of the interview, it isn't an uncomfortable affair. If there's more than one person there it's normally a polygraph test too. I had a relative in one or more agencies, he got out of the military, worked for one, tried to be a full time civilian, couldn't and went to work for a different one. If you know someone in the agencies, you will rarely know what they do if they do any of the cool stuff. You'll just get to see neat and interesting things from them like my relative sending pictures from military units they partner with for some reason. He was really cool to my mother though and before my ship pulled into a port he would send her random tourist info about where we were about to be; and then a couple days later my ship pulled in and I'd get to talk about where we were.

[@redactedredacted4080]

14:30 if it was someone who was really ideologically driven, they might do that.

[@shaqontaylor3945]

bro i would listyen to your spotify if u had one

[@numeristatech]

The Moscow Rules was a book by the Joanna and Antonio Mendez - a husband and wife team, who were CIA. The movie Argo was based on a separate book written by Antonio Mendez - who was actually part of the real mission that inspired the Argo film

[@luisuriarte4942]

One of my moms friends was a rocket scientist at NASA who applied for the CIA, one day she’s driving home and the CIA calls her and says they’re at her home wanting to do a character interview on her friend.

[@damienmitchell3104]

14:00 look through history and youll see how petty countries can be it also wasnt a perfect hammer and sickle but close enough to get the geist.

[@trip_s1mulat0r]

Yeah, I'm definitely not for entrusting the safety of our country to an agency reported to be rife with "neurotoxin addiction"

[@WackoMcGoose]

Story 18: One, I was half expecting the line to be in the shape of a... kolbasa 🌭, but the hammer-and-sickle is more on brand, honestly. And two, "Иди нахуй" (idi nahui) is pretty universally understood to be russkie for "screw you".

[@TheAngrySecurityGuardChannel]

Pretty much everything and anything they can tell you except personnel names, certain dates and certain locations of stuff. Oh yeah, they also won’t tell you wire diagrams of certain things or what kind of or how many screws and nails they use on certain things either. Hence, pretty much nothing is unknown or else we wouldn’t even know the agencies exist and would never be talked about.

[@Exvinnittyy-CC]

W Sparked frfr.

[@JFKismyhusband_]

kennedy 👀 also funfact my moms bffs father was a Russian spy in the 70s-90s

[@kimsmith1746]

Well, one thing a CIA agent can tell is a lie about their little sister draining their parent's bank accounts...to the police...without repercussions, even when little sister proved she did no such thing.

[@ReddDimensional]

Reads title Also, me: Whatever is being made behind closed doors is being hidden from the public.

[@KeenanWilliams777]

Showed her the live leaks playlist 😭😭

[@trip_s1mulat0r]

9:56 "C.I.aAAa." 🗣🗣🗣

[@GiveMeBackMyUsernameYouTube]

For all the good the CIA does, I could never see them as being a trustworthy organisation because of all the terrible things they've done with far reaching and lasting ramifications. Not looking to get into a debate about the greater good.

[@HavianEla]

Wait, the CIA has done something right, EVER!?!?

[@erggml1887]

@@HavianEla Tons, the problem is that you can't do their job and be a perfect little boy scout. They have stopped many evil things; sometimes, they have had to do bad things to stop worse things. We never hear about the things that were good and went well. We only hear about the screwups and nasty stuff if they get caught. They have rescued foreign spies who were working for us, saving them from a horrible death. They have stopped foreign spy operations against our interests. They have helped bring evil people to justice (Osama Bin Laden, for one). I suggest reading the following books: Betrayal in Berlin, Shadow Warrior, Hunting the Jackal, The Billion Dollar Spy, From Warsaw, With Love, and Poisoner in Chief. There are other books, too, but these will show that the CIA, in particular, is a mixed bag, not all good, not all bad, at times an asset, and at other times, a real problem.

[@EricLing64]

@@HavianElaThe funny thing is no one will ever focus on the good they do, partly because they probably can't take credit, and antagonistic entities have a vested interest in painting them in a bad light. Amusing no? Not to say they don't do bad shit as well, but when you look at the crazy shit other countries do as well, do you care anymore? Would you like some radioactive tea?

[@kitkakitteh]

FBI, what can you lie to us about today?

[@savagefurry]

Petition for the narrator to say "whenever you are" instead of "wherever you are"

[@jamesholland5139]

Ifi learn something classified you're not killing me, you're hiring me, get better at hiding stuff if you don't want people finding stuff, if someone found out about something it's your fault

[@Montorpedo]

I knew a lot of military , can't repeat anything though. 😢

[@Tofu69]

The only thing i got from this video is that he doesn't know how to say "Dulles" [Duh-LES] lol, other then that great video

[@rhinestonecowboy_]

5:18 how the hell did this get allowed on here? 😰😳

[@tonyperkins8591]

You don't wanna know

[@Clasteau]

Very interested in this because I play some RPGs where I play an agent with State's TIP division and info is good to have to play it well and fun.

[@benjaminjarrett9816]

I have conspiracy theory about Alzheimer’s. What if they have a way of causing it and opt to infect agents or assets with it before or during debriefing for retirement.

[@oceansupply8106]

im telling you right now, FBI/CIA agents wont comment on stupid reddit posts like that. all fantasy storys

[@DelphineDenton]

This is wrong. The outside person who provides access and information is not an agent, that's an asset.