GED?
You too can be an NSA contractor!
Posted on 09/14/2024 10:59:43 PM PDT by Angelino97
School leavers who did badly in their exams can still have a career as a spy in the secret security services, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
MI5 is looking for potential spies with just one GCSE, providing the qualification is in English and it's a grade 4 or above.
Spymasters hope to recruit dozens of school leavers or older adults on a starting salary of £32,000.
The role – called a Foundation Analyst – involves examining data, such as audio files, from potential state enemies to see if they are linked to terrorists, extremists or organised crime gangs.
Most roles within MI5 and the other intelligence agencies usually require applicants to have a top university degree.
And there was once a time when the majority of graduates joining the security service were selected from Oxford and Cambridge.
But now MI5 – currently depicted in hit Apple TV drama Slow Horses, starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman – says it wants to increase diversity and recruit individuals with virtually no academic qualifications.
Those selected could also potentially move into other areas of the organisation's work such as agent handling and intelligence.
Successful applicants will have to pass a rigorous selection process where their background will be subjected to careful vetting to ensure they have no links to terrorists or criminal groups or whether they could be targeted by foreign agents.
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Hopefully, MI5 will find Britain’s “idiots-savant”?
Maybe designate their new recruits as MI4?
FYI: “General Certificate of Secondary Education”
[says it wants to increase diversity and recruit individuals with virtually no academic qualifications.]
Because they’ll be loyal to The State.....supposedly
>> School leavers who did badly in their exams can still have a career as a spy in the secret security services, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Tell you a little secret... it ain’t just in GB.
Our own CIA has been expanding nearly exponentially since the mid eighties. And the majority of that new CIA is most definitely NOT!!! respectful of the Constitution, nor of citizens’ rights under that Constitution.
President Trump MUST!!! take a WRECKING BALL to that evil, unconstitutional internal oppressive force. And the CIA is only one of the agencies that have been turned inwards against We The People.
You too can be an NSA contractor!
Well, he would have absolutely ZERO problems doing exceptional on an actual IQ test.
“… involves examining data, such as audio files…”
“… just one GCSE, providing the qualification is in English and it’s a grade 4 or above.”
Sounds like they’re looking for native speakers of target languages, such as Chinese, Arabic, Korean, etc. that can communicate in English to grind through the massive amount of intercepts they can now gather.
Is this what happened?
true
Wright began his career with MI5 in 1954.
Here is the Wikipedia page on the book:
Peter Wright passed away in 1995. Here is the link to his obituary which describes his MI5 career at length.
Both "Spy Catcher" and this book: "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner were recommended to me by someone on another conservative website. I had mentioned to them that I was reading: "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" by Danny Orbach, a book about the CIA's hiring of known Nazi war criminals for intelligence purposes. I haven't yet bought a copy of "Legacy of Ashes."
Maybe MI5 has learned that higher educated folks have become dumber and want to get to folks before they’re indoctrinated.
I didn’t think that the UK had anything LEFT with which to compromise their sovereignty and their citizens?
Talk about planting the seeds of your own destruction...
When the new recruits discover that the intelligence agencies are linked to terrorists, extremists and organised crime gangs, things will get deadly interesting real fast.
What could go wrong?
Thank you. Was going to ask but you beat me to it.
Thanks for the recommendation.
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