Speak Russian? Interested in national security? CIA looks for linguists to ‘unveil the truth’

In a Twitter post with a picture message in Russian, the Central Intelligence Agency asks: “Do you know what you can do as a CIA linguist?”

The answer, “Unveil the Truth,” is provided in Russian without any details, leaving many to wonder what secrets the agency was seeking to uncover.

The CIA is looking for Language Officers who, according to the agency, are “key” players in “foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, cyber, and covert action operations.”

Such a specialist would be offered up to $103,639 per year and will be tasked with conducting “high-quality, accurate, and timely translations, interpretations,” and other language-related support to the Directorate of Operations’ clandestine missions.

Candidates can choose to apply to work as Open Source Collection Officers (OSCOs) who will be tasked with collecting and analyzing publicly available information known as Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). In addition to a salary of up to $103,639, potential candidates would also be offered a “generous” benefits package. 

Unfortunately for many of those who rushed to offer their services on Twitter (including some shady character seeking to infiltrate the agency and destroy it from inside), the eligible candidate must be a US citizen and be in possession of four-year college or university degree. The candidates must also successfully pass medical, psychological, and a lie detector tests, in addition to a comprehensive background check.

Some users joked that the list of requirements was obviously incomplete, adding that a suitable applicant must also be qualified in government coups, alteration of history and doublethink.

Others said the truth can be uncovered without such overqualified personnel, noting that whistleblower Edward Snowden did exactly so without speaking any Russian.

Many questioned if the agency was looking to reinforce its own army of online trolls, expecting increased confrontation with Russia, and offered their meme-drawing skills.

The CIA job post on Twitter comes amid heightened anti-Russian hysteria in the US, sparked during the US election last year. It has dragged on since, with Moscow being blamed for interfering in the US democratic process without any evidence being presented.

Russian media, including the Sputnik news agency and RT, have also been targeted in a seemingly never ending witch-hunt.

Earlier in September, the US Department of Justice sent a letter to a supply company contracted to RT America, demanding that it register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a 1938 piece of legislation adopted to counter Nazi Germany.

“In the witch hunt atmosphere which has been established in the US, this provision may pose a real danger,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. “Applying the FARA to RT will have serious legal consequences, and will also compromise the safety of its employees. It demands disclosure of the channel’s confidential data, including the list of employees and their personal data.”

“There is no doubt that these decisions are politically motivated,” added Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency.

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Zakharova and Simonyan’s comments coincided with Twitter’s Vice President for Public Policy Colin Crowell briefing members of the House and Senate intelligence committees about his organization’s take on the alleged Russian interference in the US elections – leaving some visibly disappointed with the lack of any evidence of such interference.

Part of Twitter’s “revelations” to the committees was that RT spent $274,100 for 1,823 US ads to promote its accounts and broadcasting, “definitely or potentially” targeting the US market.

“This is forcing us to go a step further and come clean that we also spent money on advertising at airports, in taxis, on billboards, on the Internet, on TV and radio. Even CNN ran our commercials,” Simonyan noted – all as Twitter users posted images of RT cars driving in Washington DC which ironically read: “The CIA calls us a ‘propaganda machine’ – find out what we call the CIA at RT.com.”