At least I grew up happy in a free country and got to enjoy that for a while. I even remember when the CIA spied on other countries, and they weren’t allowed to spy on us.
Yes, I remember the same times. The spooks I knew, I liked. They like gun, did things I would not dream of doing and hated Commies more than me. (that is hard)
LOL!
“They” have always also spied on us!
They just used to make concerted attempts to keep that information very quiet.
I gather they’ve never tried to “recruit” you.
I’ve often wondered about the caliber of people they did successfully manage to recruit.
It’s a civilian Federal government agency, so there is always going to be the ironclad 80/20 rule in play.
About 20% of them are serious about their mission, and manage to do it, in spite of 80% of their clueless and incompetent fellow cohorts and leaders.
The thing about that 20%, is always the question as to who they really work for....