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As a local detective, I got a call from FBI that a local man who applied to CIA admitted to a crime during preemployment polygraph. Agent told me the guy was a legitimate candidate- spoke several languages, and other qualifications Also, in the law enforcement community nationwide, word gets around what Secret Service agents think of the Presidents, candidates and their families. Needless to say , the Clintons wer dreadful. O’bamas we’re just a normal family. Barbara Bush 1 was a wonderful motherly type echo knew everyone’s name, gave baby shower gifts, etc
I sold mags door to door and met an old retired cia operative, been everywhere, had stories for everyplace without ever once even hinting that he was on duty at the time, had very old show posters that were hung all around the lounge area where we were seated, collected them from different countries he had been to and had them framed. Super sweet old dude and told me that being sworn to secrecy means he will take the coolest stories to the grave, but that it was a great life to live. He offered that I apply if I was brazen enough to be broken and remade into a tool for our government. I asked if he was still watched and he said in the oldest man way, ohhhh well i wouldn't be surprised if this place is bugged, but I'm not too worried about thaat.
I knew someone in the OSS. She never gave up anything. She did verify a WWII rumor that Japanese planes were on their way to bomb San Francisco but turned back when the found out the military was waiting for them. She laughed as when WWII started the US didn't have a military. She said for 400 miles of the California the US had one machine gun.
Johnson ordered it Bush Sr acting CIA director managed the event time line logistics and decided which CIA officer's would be most able an forever discreet. The CIA officer's managed the local Leo's involved an the event location itself also selected the performer's including the emergency scapegoat should something go sideways. The JFK assassination was a complete fuck up IMHO not only did the scapegoat become a necessity so did a second assassination of said scapegoat lolz. Pro tip when preparing the scapegoat make sure the person is either A willing to be scapegoated in exchange for certain things in prison. Or B to week willed and stupid to expose the whole event lol former military personnel are especially dangerous for this position if unwilling.
@@long-hair-dont-care88. I think they used mob guys to either handle it or take care of certain things so they could have deniability. Since Giancana and them were recruited to take out Castro. They could just blame it on them since JFK broke promises. Hence Ruby killing Oswald.
There's a former counterterrorism spy named Tracy Walder that submitted her manuscript for her autobiography to CIA, and it came back like that. She left in the black marks, and it's a very cool style choice. I got her to autograph the book when she gave a talk at the spy museum in DC, and asked her to black out one word. It says "Leslie, go ***** the world." She did it with black ink pen and then decided it wasn't black enough and went over it with Sharpie. She hands it to me and says, "there. Now nobody knows WHAT I told you to do to the world." It is one of my prize possessions. I have an autographed copy of The Moscow Rules and Argo, too, but that's a different story for a different day. :P :P
During WWII Future acting legend Christopher Lee worked for British Intelligence. Decades later while doing an interview, the reporter brought up Lee's Wartime experiences, and asked him to talk about it. Lee leaned in and asked "Can you keep a secret?" The interviewer said "Yes". Lee Responded "So can I". Then refused to say any more about it. Up to the time of his death, Lee never revealed one bit of information regarding his wartime intelligence work.
@@manubishe It was ALL still covered by the Official Secrets act, and even if it wasn't. Lee kept faith. Ian Fleming [a relative of Lee's coincidentally] was more effusive about HIS intelligence work during the war. Some of it DID get him "Cautioned".
If you know who they are they are not important, if they tell you who they are they are not important. If you went looking for the job you will never be important. If you were the lonely outcast that nobody remembers in your backwoods high School and were recruited, you are the most important asset we have...
My dad used to work as an aeronautical mechanic on classified aircraft. He would be working on things covered in a black sheet with supports all over so he couldn't see the basic shape of the entire aircraft with just a small exposed area where he had to work; the whole time had at least one guy just sitting there watching him. Anyway, we found out years later from a guy living on our street that more than once they were visited by suits who asked them questions about our family ( have you noticed any strange visitors, people coming and going at odd hours ext) but never explained why. They where convinced someone in are house was doing some serious illegal acts that was being investigated. In hindsight it explains why we where sometimes treated like lepors
I knew an old dog from the USAF who apparently was part of the team that developed the SR-71 Blackbird, which is still so top secret practically nothing is known about the plane to this day even after decades of disuse. All he'd ever disclosed to me regarding the aircraft was that there was a design flaw in the fuel tank in which it was simply more economical to just replace it after every flight instead of correcting it. He never really specified what exactly the flaw was but considering the insane speed and altitude it's capable of even by today's standards along with the era in which it was produced, that just seems like such a trivial problem in comparison to it's capabilities.
Yeah that isn't anything classified or unique. The fact that the SR-71's fuel tanks never sealed properly until they reached max speed and altitude is public knowledge.
My mom used to work for the company that made the fuel for the SR-71. They used to ( probably still do) test fire rockets upside down up in the mountains, causing the whole city to think there's an earthquake going on. I did get a ton of sweet Blackbird swag as a kid though.
My dad grew up on an air base and he said they would leak feul all over the place. There's supposedly a picture somewhere with him sitting in the cockpit as little kid in either the 60s or early 70s, but we don't know who in the family has it.
When my father died, a bunch of navy people showed up in the funeral, one of them was an Admiral. We didnt think much of it, always knew he worked for the Navy when I was a young kid. When the ceremony was over the admiral and his "entourage" of people comes over to me, shakes my hand and said my dad was a good man, and an amazingly good sea captain. Found out later he had been working on some secret sea-mine projects in the 80s and early 90s, but nobody knew until he died..
@@TheNightWatcher1385 I don’t think it is North Korea because they had tanks and submarines from the Soviet Union that his only danger is that they can give you tetanus if you touch them for so rusty they are
My ex's dad did contract IT work for CSIS (Canada's version of the CIA). He told us about these server rooms that contained such highly sensitive data that they would be automatically sealed and destroyed in case of extreme threat. I think he said something about a gas that was released that would instantly fry the servers..? He also said that the spies and secret agents he knows are all some of the most aggressively boring and plain people he's ever met. I mean... It makes sense re: avoiding suspicion/detection, but still disappointed me a little.
My grandparents lived next door to a CSIS operative for like 20-30 years and only found out after he retired. The home he lived in once belonged to my great-grandmother.
That last story is actually kind of funny lmao I was genuinely expecting a dick shape but I imagine the Russians were most likely laughing just as hard
My grandma has a cousin in the FBI, so if I ever meet him I’ll have to ask. Mainly grandma uses him to verify if someone is really with the FBI, laugh about people who try to scam her as she gives him all the information she got out of them (she plays the clueless old lady card amazingly lol), and to put the fear of god into the people trying to scam her after she gets all the information she can from them (“oh thank you so much for your help! I’ll just give my cousin at the FBI a call and-“ *click*)
You could give him a try I actually had a 'funnier' more obscene comment to make but now I want to give you all my information to have you pass on to him so I can apply but I'll just have to wait
Australian Federal Police: those tracking cases like human trafficking an paedophiles/paedophile groups are called Spider Squad I believe because of Australian prison slang. In prison, they call paedophiles rock spiders, or dead meat if they're in general population and news of their crime gets out
Yeah, "rock spiders", because rock spiders are always trying to get into little cracks ... A woman I used to be in the army with joined the Federal coppers after she got out and spent time on the spider squad. I've heard some of her stories. I don't want to hear any more.
@@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S. Not surprising.Many "career criminals" had childhoods that made hell look like a picnic. It doesn't excuse their crimes, but it often explains their journey from childhood to a criminal career. Which is why when they meet a rock spider it makes them want to kill it
Before I found my Lady Wife (when I thought I would die alone and lonely) I planned to keep a shoebox hidden in my closet for folks to find when they cleaned my place out. Was going to have a silenced Walther PPK, a bunch of fake passports and IDs, and a bunch of foreign currency.
whatever agent spies on my stuff you will either be bored because of me just looking up random things that cross my mind that i am curious about or hear about or depressed at seeing some of my other searches or feel embarrassed or ashamed at spying on my depression time searches
My grandfather briefly worked for the CIA in the 50s, maybe early 60s, I'm not sure of the exact timeline. One late night, he was either sweeping or mopping around some base, and accidentally saw what he thought was a flying saucer. I wish he would give me more details, but he never really talks about his time in the military or CIA. It was probably just some experimental craft made by the US, but it's still interesting.
22:47 Somewhat unrelated but my great uncle was a FBI agent.🛃 Every time we would ask him if he had any interesting stories but he would say he was sworn I to secrecy. After 10 years of hearing this, my sister asked “Really?” 🤔and he responded with “No, I just don’t remember anything interesting happening.”😕😛
My dad invented and developed the T.S.P.S. communication system at bell labs . I’ve got stories, Middletown nj. Had more Soviet Spy’s than any place in the world . . . Need to know clearance. As a kid I never knew WHY weird stuff happened . Why dad had a private phone in his office at home . I’ve got stories… miss you Dad ! A life well lived
Two things: 1) when I was in high school, I had a vice principal that was in the Secret Service for Nixon and Regan. I was nearly suspended for outing him due to what I wasn't aware of at the time as a violation of the Federal Agent Identity Protection Act. 2) my dad was involved in some secret stuff as an aerospace engineer to the point where if he traveled abroad, he was given a special number to call if he were ever kidnapped. He never had to call said number so I dont know what it did
One of my substitute teachers in high school was briefly (only a couple years) employed by the FBI. She was a receptionist, essentially. Just filed paperwork, fetched documents, basic shit.
My neighbor worked for Locked Martin, Skunkworks projects and others. He is a genius, can see perfect color and can tell you how many lumins they were. Being interested in his stories, there were lots, one stood out. It was about propulsion and levitation crafts - then proceed to tell me how they worked. I definitely know things I shouldn’t now. Side note, he loved to take care of neighborhood cats and smelled like cat piss always, yet not a bum- in fact loaded with money.
I can't BELIEVE the Buffalo Chicken Salad got out! That's just great, I am going to be writing memos and a full report on it for a week now. NO ONE had better mention The Cactus, dammit!
@@dream-lh4pc I know. But there's this cliché still around that males tend to be more sex-crazed than females. Not that I blame the female CIA members for having their own pin-up thing. (Imagine the son or daughter of a Russian former submarine crewman watching this video. "Hey, dad! Remember when you were in the Navy? Some US CIA chick peeped on you while you were naked, somewhere on the Black Sea! I found the pictures!" Smirking ensues)
"Of course they have something called Spider Squad in Australia" I mean, sure we do got a lot of spiders, but if you know what the phrase "Rock-Spider" means then it makes a LOT more sense.
I am retired military and attended secret security meetings. 90% of the stuff put out in the meetings I already knew about but it's that 10% that must remain a secret.
19:47, that is what they wanted your uncle to think, yuckyuck13. Were that story true, you know, about Iraq having no weapons of mass destruction, then why is it that Iran suddenly just so happened to have come across the ability to create nuclear energy, let alone also have access to nuclear materials? Also, who else knows what Iran has in that country? Here is what REALLY happened...Iraq is like "Uh-oh, the USA is mad at us and they know that we have all of these weapons of mass destruction. What do we do about this problem?" When Iraq said that, some bright egg over there said, "Hey, why do we not give Iran these these weapons?" The first person was probably saying, "Are you joking? Why would Iran, out of all of the countries in the world, help us out with our own problem? They honestly have plenty of their own problems to deal with without helping out our country. We literally fought a war against them for a decade! Why would they help us out with dealing with the USA?" The second person was like, "Well, think about it like this...we do not like the USA and Iran does not like the USA, but the truth is that Iran is a better organized nation than us, not to mention that they are also a larger nation than us, and that they have been wanting to take the USA down for years, so if our goals are the same, then does it not make logical sense to help out our neighbor? I mean, if the USA and Germany can be friends after two World Wars, as well as The Cold War, then surely we can have a mutual alliance with Iran, right? Also, since Iran wanted access to these materials, and the USA has been sniffing around our country, we can give Iran our materials, as well as feed more misinformation about 9/11 being an inside job, as well as the USA being as noble as they claim to be about this 'War on Terror', thus fulfilling the commands of our Luciferian globalist elite benefactors, and thus manipulating the world once again in their, and, consequentially, our favor. What this means is that the conspiracy theorists that we manipulate win, the pseudo-patriots that we are manipulating, not only in the USA, but also here in Iraq, as well as Iran, and elsewhere worldwide, all win, we win again by getting the USA off of our backs, and Iran wins again because they get what they wanted...for some substantial fees, naturally, of course." These things are really what happened during the War on Terror. I would go more into depth on the 2001, as well as 1993, terrorist bombings in the USA, but those things are honestly other discussions for other times.
14:38 Former Spec Forces guys, overweight? It depends on how badly they were overweight, but nonetheless, the very concept of former Spec Forces members being overweight sounds like blasphemy to me.
Most people who work for these orgs aren't any different than usual people going to their jobs. Similar to the military there are many in support rolls who do paperwork rather than wetwork. When I was deployed only a handful of us left the base regularly for missions. The rest were what we called fobbits or fob dwellers.
My Middle school homeroom/math/English teacher's husband worked for the Pentagon. Now while she couldn't tell any of us high functioning autistic students about what he did, she did tell us what happened to him on 9/11 every year(don't worry he did survive but she told us that story every year throughout middle school to emphsize the importance of 9/11 to us autistic and other special needs students)
Had a neighbor in government. Air Force, I presumed. He moved and several months later I get a call from someone claiming to be in the government and this guy was up for a promotion and they wanted to know if I would give a reference. I said I hardly knew my ex neighbor. They kept pressing me, but all I could think of is how did they get my phone number and how do they know my name?
