How Do You Become an Intelligence Officer?

Peopleo want, you know, james bond are they have this image of intelligence. How far is that image away from the reality? I guess there are two sort of extremes of this. One is the world betrayed by the late great john lecarie in his novels. And then there's tha sort of glamorous side of it, the farse cars, the women and so on like james bond. Although i'm into farst cars,. i'm much more at the t sort of licari end of the scale, i suppose, in reality.