What are the requirements to be in the Peace Corps?
To be eligible for Peace Corps service, you must be at least 18 years of age and a U.S. citizen. 3-6 months of full-time experience with a large-scale commercial or family-run business involving vegetable gardening, farming, nursery work, tree planting and care, urban forestry, or fisheries work.
Why can’t CIA work for Peace Corps?
The Peace Corps doesn’t want host countries to think their volunteers are a cover job for spies, nor that the Corps is a training ground for spies. The CIA and Defense Department have agreed to the restriction.
Does the CIA hire felons?
The CIA doesn’t indicate that you can’t apply and gain a career as a CIA agent if you’ve been arrested. Instead, it is noted in the agency’s application process that the type of activity, seriousness and recency of illegal or unethical behaviors will be considered in evaluating your application.
How much money does a CIA agent make?
CIA agent salaries vary, but you can anticipate making between $50,000 and $95,000 a year, depending on the specific job, your work experience and level of education.
Can CIA employees have Facebook?
Agency officials worry the young people they want to attract might assume they can’t ever use Facebook or Twitter — or if they have, they’re disqualified. The agency made social media the No. “The truth is, CIA employees can use social media,” the agency’s page says.
What is the CIA not allowed to do?
The CIA collects information only regarding foreign countries and their citizens. Unlike the FBI, it is prohibited from collecting information regarding “U.S. Persons,” a term that includes U.S. citizens, resident aliens, legal immigrants, and U.S. corporations, regardless of where they are located.
Is the FBI or CIA harder to get into?
However, in terms of HUMINT roles such as intelligence officers and paramilitary officers, I would say that without a doubt the CIA is the hardest to get into for these roles. FBI agents think like police officers, the thing is though you don’t send a police officer to catch a spy.
Is CIA above FBI?
Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, the CIA has no law enforcement function and is officially mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic intelligence collection….Central Intelligence Agency.
| Agency overview | |
|---|---|
| Annual budget | $15 billion (as of 2013) |