Becoming a CIA operative, known as a "clandestine," requires meeting high standards. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, at least 18 years old, and willing to relocate to the Washington, D.C. area.

Once, during a clandestine meeting with another CIA officer, he carelessly chucked his ornate Koran onto a nearby bed, telling the other operative he didn’t “give a crap about that fiction ...

Gaurav Srivastava dreamed of being a player in the murky world of clandestine operations. His goal was to build a private military and intelligence operation, funded by natural resources ...

Another first for the agency came on the same podcast episode – a previously unnamed CIA operative who took ... They weren’t trained to be clandestine, elusive.” ...

Newly unearthed secret JFK assassination documents may include files on a CIA spy chief with a murky role in the affair, it has emerged. The CIA man based in Miami funded a group of Cuban exiles ...

Many wives functioned as clandestine extensions of their ... Sometimes the tactic even fooled other CIA women. One female operative recalled to me about being in an U.S. embassy compound and ...

38 Super pistols supposedly “made by Colt for clandestine use by the CIA ... the son of a retired (and now deceased) 30-year CIA field operative said his father advised him W&K Wholesale ...

Groening's background, education and career trajectory have been extensively documented, with no indication of involvement in clandestine ... Groening is a former CIA operative remains unfounded.

What makes a successful CIA agent? Being a crack shot with the driving skills of a Formula 1 driver sure helps, but as retired field operative Ric Prado explains, those are abilities that only ...

A foreign recruit may not speak English, in which case the CIA operative must be able to communicate in a foreign language. The Agency, Prado explains, “will never send an officer into the field ...

He joined forces with an oil trader, a former senior CIA agent and veterans of the U.S. and Australian special forces. Gen. Wesley Clark, a former NATO commander, served as a paid adviser.