What types of rules does the CIA have for trainees?

What types of rules does the CIA have for trainees?

Interestingly, the CIA does not tell you that you cannot tell anybody that you're working at the CIA. They kind of leave that up to you. Of course you're discouraged from telling anybody that you work there, but most people tell their spouses, or significant others, or their parents. In my case, my parents and my brother knew that I was working at the CIA and that's pretty typical. But one rule that they have is that any, what they call "close and continuing contacts" you have with a foreigner you have to report to the CIA. So that can be a friend, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, significant other, any relationships that you have with foreigners are significant in your life, the CIA has to know about, and they will perform a background investigation of sorts on that individual to make sure that they don't pose any threat to the agency. And very often you might be asked to discontinue your relationship with that foreigner, and that is a steadfast rule that as a trainee and later on as an employee, you're not supposed to break.