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The first book about what it’s really like to work at the CIA… warts and all. Have you ever wondered what Agency officers actually do every day? Want to know what it’s really like to live and work overseas, to recruit and handle agents, to spy for your country? CIA 101 is an honest account of a Case Officer’s career at the Agency. From application, interviews, and onboarding, to training, overseas assignments, and finally departure… The author takes you on the full roller coaster ride – the ups and downs, good sides and bad, the fun, funny, and absurd moments. What you need to know and what’s neat to know.

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There are very few parts of our government that arouse as much curiosity as our intelligence services, and of those services, the most famous is the CIA. From movies and television, every American probably has some preconceived idea of what a CIA Spy (Case Officer) does. The vast majority of them are very wrong. 

In this book, Professor Millick takes his readers on a clear and open tour of the life and work of case officers. He does it by using examples from his own career. His account is blissfully unvarnished and free of attempts to either apologize for the actions of the Central Intelligence Agency or over-glamorize them. For anyone considering a career in the clandestine service, or who just wants a dose of reality the next time he watches a spy thriller, this book should be required reading.

While the entire book is worth reading, I particularly suggest Lesson 10: A Closed System. Starting by making an analogy to the inbred herds of deer on the grounds of a training facility, Millick incisively demonstrates a key problem with the CIA and many other organizations. To protect itself the organization limits its exposure to outside influences. As time goes on this leads to greater and greater isolation of the organization. Eventually, it becomes like the limited gene pool of those inbred deer.The author writes:

“As a rule, closed systems are rarely healthy, breeding suspicion of outside influences and resisting change. The Agency’s conservative culture is all the more striking, given the rapid change of pace in the rest of the world”

He further expands on this idea in a later lesson:

“Not surprisingly there is little camaraderie within the US government as a whole. Relations between departments run hot and cold, giving rise to constant turmoil between the CIA, the military, and the State Department.”

This final quote leads to the conclusion that Professor Millick has done more than he set out to do. While showing what the CIA looks like from the inside, he also gives his readers something he did not plan on -- a glimpse into the disappointment of a true believer facing the fact that something he believes in is not living up to the standards he had hoped it would.He may think that these feelings are unique to the CIA, but they are much more broadly applicable. As someone who joined the Foreign Service the same year Millick joined the Agency I can say that those same feelings are experienced every day at the Main State. I would also bet that they are felt in the military, on Capitol Hill, and in most agencies of the United States government. Anywhere where people have thrown themselves into a mission believing they could make a real difference and learned to their sorrow that even the noblest agency is staffed by human beings with all their flaws and failings.

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