How is the agent recruitment training conducted?

How is the agent recruitment training conducted?

The agent recruitment training is conducted with the scenario where you as a trainee are pretending to be an American diplomat overseas, and there's a whole cadre of instructors who are playing foreigners. It's like an extensive role playing exercise that takes place over a course of several months, or a little bit like what you might think of as a war game. This all takes place at the farm, and they have a fake country that you're residing in, and you're trying to recruit foreigners in that fake country. The seasoned CIA instructors play the role of foreigners. A lot of them really get into it, and some of them, almost start to believe in the fake reality down there, and they will give you a hard time. it is all done with the purpose of trying to prepare you for dealing with real foreigners, foreign agents who might be difficult, who might have drinking problems, who might have family problems, who might make a pass at you. All of this takes place in the training environment, so that when you actually go overseas, you'll be prepared for it.