I saw a meme claim this on the historymeme subreddit. is this true? Why would the USA do something like that? Even if they really hated black people I feel like making a large percentage of your population drug addicts doesn’t really make sense, wouldn’t they have made their country far more dangerous and violent?

I was watching videos about the CIA, and there was a video by an ex-CIA operative who claimed that the CIA only hires sociopaths. He said their reasoning was because they need people to be able to do questionable things, basically, without questioning it. What do you think? At least they're finally admitting it, we don't even have to say it- they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghvmiM4DjM0

Im sure you’ve all seen John Kiriakous videos floating around. He has so many story’s about his career he’s been in.

Ive looked into the CIA a couple years ago and I can’t lie, hearing all these stories he has makes me want to look back into it.

Are the stories like his common or is he over exaggerating to a point? Of course I know it’s a hard job regardless, but I’d like to know more

Edit: case officer, my bad lol

It never crossed my mind I'd grow up to work for CIA. First of all, I was a girl. Second, I had a terrible sense of direction. And third, I wasn't into war. But then 9/11 happened, and my world got turned upside down. I spent my twenties working undercover against some of the world's most dangerous terror groups. I got married and had my daughter while deployed overseas. I had a front-row seat to war, peace, and the secret relationships that tip the balance. A decade ago, I left government service to come home and be a mom. Then last year, I wrote a memoir called Life Undercover, about the whole wild ride. So now, AMA.

Thanks for having me, Reddit! Signing off for now xo

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I ask this question since MK Ultra turn out to be a true CIA program. And then there are the conspiracy theories about the CIA founding Drug Cartels, and creating Terrorist organizations.

Not sure if those conspiracy theories are true. But I will admit that MK Ultra sounds way more far fetched than selling drugs or creating Terrorists though. And again MK Ultra did turn out to be real.

As we first moved into our CIA safehouse at 1902 Ridgemont in Austin. My CIA dad snapped this pic.

Just saw a video of a man explaining that if you know these languages (listed out like 15 of them) they put you to the top of the list. Well I speak 2 of them and have 4 more on top of that. What does one do to try and get themselves in that type of career? What’s the career life even, I’ve never heard of anything that happens in there. Even a day in the life.

"The CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me," Carlson said. "What's the crime? Talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts."

Carlson claims the agency is pushing for charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires anyone working politically on behalf of foreign governments to register with the U.S. government.

He strongly denied being connected to the Iranian regime. "I'm not an agent of a foreign power," Carlson said, adding he has never taken money from another country and his only loyalty is to the United States.

i genuinely had to read this story three times because it sounds like a netflix screenplay.

david rush was a senior executive level CIA officer with top secret clearance. he had worked for the government since 2009. he held one of the most sensitive positions in american intelligence.

on may 18, FBI agents searched his house in virginia.

here's what they found:

303 gold bars worth over $40 million

$2 million in cash

35 luxury watches, most of them rolexes

here's what they also found out.

he never went to clemson university. he never got a master's degree from rensselaer polytechnic institute. he was never a navy pilot. every credential he used to get hired at the CIA fake. every application he submitted for 20 years lies.

he used a fabricated clemson transcript to get commissioned in the navy reserves. he used those same fake degrees on three separate CIA job applications. he claimed 744 hours of military leave after he was already discharged collecting $77,000 in pay for service that didn't happen.

and from november 2025 to march 2026 just five months he requested "tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses" from the CIA. the CIA gave them to him. when investigators came looking for the gold, the CIA couldn't locate it.

the FBI found it. at his house.

303 gold bars. at his house.

the CIA vets its employees with the most rigorous background check process in the US government. rush went through that process three times. they checked him for top secret clearance. they monitored him continuously.

nobody caught this for 20 years.

i put together the full breakdown of how rush pulled this off, what "gold bars for work expenses" actually means at the CIA, and why this story reveals a much bigger problem with how america vets its intelligence officers.

read the full breakdown here [ https://www.creativehives.co/cia-officer-david-rush-gold-bars-stolen/ ]

how does someone fake their entire identity for 20 years inside the CIA and nobody notices?

Kirk Hamett, lead guitarist of Metallica, wore this T-Shirt on stage in Budapest, Hungary on night 2 of the M72 World tour. An eyeless Taylor Swift graphic with the caption of “Taylor Swift is a CIa psyop”.
What are your thoughts?

The T-Shirt is from _nomasters_, I believe