Fropm the introduction by Jon Dough: "Although the CIA's mercenary operation for Zimbabwe had failed in the end, the machinery remains as a covert weapon that can be restarted and put to use in new imperialist interventions and wars in the Global...
“You are a captain. You're an officer. Why the hell would you start all over?” And he said, “That's easy.” Because as a captain at that time in Czechoslovakia, he make a thousand French franc a month. And there, just at our recruit stage, they paid 3,500 French franc ...
“Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?” Washington Post. 2 June, 2007. Steuer, Jonathan. “Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence.” Journal of Communications. Vol. 42, No. 2. 1992. The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environmentshttp://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/index....
“Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?” Washington Post. 2 June, 2007. Steuer, Jonathan. “Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence.” Journal of Communications. Vol. 42, No. 2. 1992. The Encyclopedia of Virtual Environmentshttp://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/index....
historically been considered outside the purview of public health, despite being vital to achieving meaningful improvements in health policy [129]. Capacity building initiatives to train, recruit and integrate these skillsets into public health efforts are therefore critical to strengthening the ‘public ...
They may begin hanging around gang members, finding out who is important and learning what the gang does. This can happen as early as age 10 or 11. Gangs intentionally recruit children and use them to carry weapons and drugs or commit other crimes because they tend to attract less attention...
Also, the investigator might say: 'we can only recruit 500 patients within a reasonable number of years; what differences can we detect with that sample size?. Eventually, by iteration and compromise, either there is agreement con- cerning the number of patients and the differences that can ...
However, there are steps that government can take to help dramatically improve its ability to recruit and retain top talent. There may be current legislative constraints that prevent agencies from making big changes to attract and retain talent. However, the current circumstances—labor market shifts...
There's a bunch of stories in the book. There's a story about a CIA officer who is a terrible CIA officer. He is trying to recruit overseas assets, and he's literally miserable at it until he figures out how to have conversations, how to become a supercommunicator. There's a story...
when held on a CIA site in Poland where he was waterboarded 183 times during 15 sessions. He told the CIA an elaborate story about an Al-Qaeda plan to recruit African American Muslim converts in Montana, which he later admitted to have made up just to make the torture stop. In other...