Making Fun of Spies: Former CIA Officer and Satirist Alex Finley
Intelligence Matters
Is There More Humour at the Agency Than Other Places?
Alex, is there more humor at the agency than there was at other places you've worked or you've been what's your sense of that? I think there was a lot of humor at the Agency. We work units a high stress environment. Even very early on in their careers, the consequences of the decisions that they're making can be big and grave. And so to deal with that, we get sort of a dark humour, and and we find all kinds of things to make fun of or to make jokes about. Also, you're going through may not be drama, but it may be your going through a very strange thing. You know, i was baced in west af
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