How has the agent recruitment training helped you in the field?

How has the agent recruitment training helped you in the field?

The CIA gave us a lot of training on how to effectively smooze someone and that was an aspect that I had never been comfortable with. I had never thought that I would actually want to learn how to use someone and it didn't come naturally to me. I think that I could make friends naturally but once it became a situation if I was going to use this person, I think I was a little bit uncomfortable with it. The training helped me in that as with all other parts of the CIA training, they constantly remind you of the overall mission and that these people that you are making contacts with, these foreigners, they are not your friends. They are not people that you are going to stay in touch with once you have moved on, say to another part of the world. And they are not people the CIA is going to be interested in once they are no longer useful to us. It's kind of sad in a way but the agency does a very good job in training you to be a colder and more calculating person. It helps you in your career but sometimes it can have a negative impact on your personal life because you have become a colder, more calculating person.