Former FBI Agents Confessed Their Wildest Secrets And Stories From The Job, And I Never Knew These

As an avid Criminal Minds-watcher, I've ever wondered what it was really similar to enactment arsenic an FBI agent.

A portion back, Reddit idiosyncratic mr_squirell asked, "FBI/CIA agents of Reddit, what’s thing that you tin archer america without sidesplitting us?" Here's what they said:

Note: Obviously we can’t corroborate each of these stories, but these radical are supposedly speaking from their ain experiences arsenic alleged authorities employees.

1. "I worked with a pistillate who was a erstwhile NSA. We would ever beg her to archer america stuff, but she ne'er did. The 1 happening she did say, though, was that during training, they amusement them a video of a clump of things they've recovered retired astir and stopped. She said she hardly slept for 2 weeks aft watching that."

—jseego

2. "My dada worked for GCHQ successful the '80s doing dependable recognition, and helium can't accidental thing much for different decade. The exertion utilized that lets Siri and Alexa admit you contiguous was besides being utilized successful the '80s... Just a spot slower..."

—arabidopsis

3. "I was an analyst, not an agent/officer. 85% of each classified worldly is classified due to the fact that of however it was collected, not due to the fact that it is juicy/useful. Yes, your brag and co-workers said that worldly astir you."

—ben70

4. "We are each told ne'er to usage sites similar Reddit. Social media successful wide is beauteous overmuch a no-go."

—Throwaway93ee90299

5. "An ex-Company antheral erstwhile told maine that the movie Get Smart was much close than James Bond."

—spiff2268

6. "I talked with immoderate CIA recruiters towards the extremity of assemblage and astir applied earnestly aft a ample radical Q&A and past a overmuch smaller one. The happening that stuck retired to maine was that the guys said astir CIA agents are retired of signifier and person constricted combat grooming with guns oregon hand-to-hand. They made it wide that it’s the subject that uses force. If confronted, they were trained to instantly surrender oregon to driblet their bags and tally if possible."

—dring157

7. "If you spell done the FBI interrogation process, it takes a while. Chances are, you're going to person to walk immoderate clip moving connected crimes against children, which is truly tough, and astir radical don't privation to bash it."

—thermobollocks

8. "My dada worked for the government, and helium told maine that immoderate clip helium had a meaningful enactment with idiosyncratic who wasn't American (i.e. going implicit to my friend's location for Lunar New Year oregon going connected abrogation to Canada), helium had to study it all, and if helium saw thing suspicious."

—AudiKitty

"Yep. I went done a clearance upgrade and got asked astir a mates of radical that I cognize done friends who I didn’t see connected my paperwork and if I knew their background."

—derpyfox

9. "I worked with the Australian Federal constabulary with the spider squad doing 'computer stuff' for them successful regards to pedophiles and uncovering trafficking victims. It was the astir heartbreaking work, but erstwhile you got the pedophiles, the bureau looked similar NASA aft a Mars landing."

—dr_m_a_dman

"I don't cognize if I'm allowed to say, but a mentor who decidedly wasn't expected to archer maine utilized to beryllium a achromatic chapeau for the FBI. Apparently, each helium did was hunt for pedophiles by tracking kid intersexual maltreatment images. He said helium didn't enactment for precise agelong due to the fact that it was messing with his intelligence health."

—mastershow05

10. "My spouse is an FBI agent. One of the things they had to bash astatine the FBI Academy was spell to the Holocaust Memorial Museum successful DC. The acquisition was what tin hap if you blindly travel orders without ever questioning the morality/intent down them. I recovered that beauteous compelling, and I was gladsome to perceive that it's portion of their training."

—bukunothing

11. "Not an FBI oregon CIA officer, but my sister is simply a territory attorney, and implicit the years, she has prosecuted a fig of animal-cruelty cases. This led to her having an ongoing concern with the FBI for the past respective years. It turns retired the FBI started tracking carnal maltreatment cases astir 10-15 years agone owed to the incredibly precocious correlation betwixt abusing animals erstwhile you're young and becoming a serial convulsive offender arsenic an adult."

—TheDongerNeedsFood

12. "I person a comparative who retired from the NSA a fewer years ago. She has talked astir a fewer things successful generalities, thing specific. Among them: Alcoholism successful wide is rife successful the agency. When you cannot talk to anyone extracurricular the bureau astir your work, it becomes astir intolerable to confide successful anyone adjacent to you. Even if you person adjacent enactment friends oregon family, you person to beryllium cautious what you accidental due to the fact that not everyone is work into each program. Two radical tin beryllium adjacent to each different successful the aforesaid office, moving connected the aforesaid taxable for months, and ne'er speech astir it with each other, adjacent though they’re adjacent friends extracurricular the agency. So radical crook to the bottle. Her hubby worked for a antithetic authorities bureau and besides had a Top Secret-SCI clearance, but she couldn’t speech astir her enactment with him (nor could helium with her, but his didn’t impact the quality community)."

—NetworkLlama

13. "Want to enactment for them? Prepare to bash a just magnitude of insubstantial work. The signifier volition inquire for each of your employer's interaction information, interaction accusation of friends, your past of addresses, etc. They volition past nonstop an cause to interrogation a fig of these people. Next, you person to instrumentality a intelligence exam and beryllium interviewed by a psychologist. Finally, you'll person 1 past interrogation with a polygraph and a nonrecreational prevarication detector."

—Sw0rDz

14. "The bureau employs psychiatrists who are cleared to beryllium work into astir immoderate program. Going to them, though, is often seen arsenic a people of shame among different bureau employees, truthful they are not utilized astir arsenic often arsenic they should be."

—NetworkLlama

15. "Properly concealed programs and operations are ne'er named successful immoderate mode that indicates what they are really about. They're mostly conscionable 2 words chosen astatine random and that would seldom travel up successful mean conversation, worldly similar 'Cracked Gorilla' (which I conscionable made up disconnected the apical of my head)."

—xxkoloblicinxx

16. "I applied to beryllium an accountant astatine the FBI retired of college. On the archetypal oregon 2nd leafage of the application, it asks if you person ever done immoderate amerciable drug. Not wanting to lie, I said yes, and it instantly ended the exertion process. It's shocking to maine that determination are truthful galore FBI agents, and perfectly nary of them person ever smoked weed."

—scotchglass22

17. And finally, "Anyone who is simply a US national tin use to articulation the CIA. It isn't that hard. If you person immoderate benignant of grade successful machine science, statistics, engineering, oregon accounting, and don't person thing that would messiness up your getting a clearance, getting a occupation would beryllium comparatively casual there. Working astatine the CIA is acold much boring than you would think."

—Intrepid-Client9449

Responses person been edited for length/clarity. 

So, to each the erstwhile FBI and CIA workers retired there. What are immoderate different secrets you tin stock astir the job? Let america cognize successful the comments below. Or, if you similar to stay anonymous, stock your submission successful the signifier below.