Anyone going to do this?
https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Deceits-My-Years-CIA/dp/187617...
It's from the Vietnam period, but it doesn't sound like much has changed based on OP's description.
There is a big blue button labelled 'Start your request'. I hope you can figure the rest out, heh.
As the saying goes: you don't quit your job, you quit your boss.
Because that is how you get your name on a list.
Surely one more list wont make any difference, right?
:sigh:
I had a friend who formerly worked for military intelligence in the UK who asked once (to a group) if we thought we were on the GCHQ database. I said yes, I would likely be in there and when he asked why I gave my reason, which is that I once did something that relatively, very few people have done and thus I have marked myself as ahead of the crowd in some way since it is probable that the government became aware of that. My friend did not confirm or deny but acknowledged my contribution. I presume he would be forbidden from revealing operational details like this but these days I think that yes I am in the database because we are all in it.
Its going to be a relational database and there is no single 'rank' as such but certainly accomplishments and connections are noted. If you speak <language> and they hear about that, they will note that. They might need a <language> speaker at short notice one day and you just happen to be there. They might need a person with a particular type and colour of car. They might need a pilot. All of these people are already available within the military but they might want somebody else. It is their job to keep tabs and I think they probably do it well.
Sadly, recruiting for the intelligence community is probably around the same efficiency of your local state government. Recruiters go to college career fairs and review applications from the website. Most candidates are unqualified, crackpots, or both. A couple schools have professors that encourage students to work for agencies, so alumni from these schools are overrepresented in the IC.
Occasionally, an outstanding person is identified and recruited, but this is rare. It is almost certainly driven by a person on the inside giving a referral. The recruiters have no bandwidth to be spending time pursuing candidates in any kind of targeted fashion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Enjoy. :)
Edit: Wow, I've a LONG way to go to get on this list :/
...some of the NPCs that are in his way.
(Yeah, there's another song that has "He's making a list, and he's checking it twice".)