Spy books strain CIA review board

If you were thinking about joining the CIA but were afraid of all the murder, espionage and lying you’d have to do… Good news! It turns out you could just sit and read books all day instead! The CIA Says A record number of former CIA officers and officials are stepping from the shadows to publish memoirs, novels, essays, training manuals, legal treatises and op-ed pieces, according the agency’s Publications Review Board.

The spike has strained the resources of the review board, an in-house body of CIA employees from the agency’s operations, analysis, science and technology, security and global deployment sections. Board members, Mansfield says, now are obliged to sift through thousands of manuscript pages each month to edit out material that reveals, or is based on, classified information.

May 3, 2007 by Uncategorized 0

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