Do the departments inside the CIA hire certain types of people?

Do the departments inside the CIA hire certain types of people?

Lindsay Moran (Former CIA Spy) gives expert video advice on: Do the departments inside the CIA hire certain types of people?; What type of person will the National Clandestine Service hire?; What type of person will the Directorate of Intelligence hire? and more...

Every department at the CIA has a kind of culture attached to it. The department that I was in is called the Directorate of Operations, and that basically is comprised of all the spies, the people who actually go out and steal secrets. It's not surprising that the people who are attracted to that particular department, and the people that the CIA hires, tend to be outgoing. They tend to be people who like to take risks, who like to live overseas, people with language capabilities and strong social capabilities, because these are the people who are going to be in the field doing the real business of the CIA, which is meeting, assessing, developing, and ultimately recruiting foreigners to sell us state secrets.