Former CIA Operations Officer Turned Novelist Jim Lawler
Intelligence Matters
Is the Clandestine Service a Good Idea?
Jim Boulden: I was in my last year of law school at the university of texas. A retired case officer named bill wood interviewed me for a job with c i a. He said, jim, have you ever thought about the clandestine service? That intrigued him; he wrote to mister wood and chatted for two hours. Three days later, i got a phone call from a young woman who never used the words or the letters c iA. And they offered me a job as a g s 11 operations officer.
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