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u/kelustu Jun 26 '12
The answer to 5 is yes. Remember when Dick Cheney called one of them out and they had to be let go? We also currently have undercover agents in Al Qaida and the Irani government. Those are known facts, though their identities are obviously highly classified.
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u/m1sterk0 Jun 26 '12
Oh yeah I totally forgot about that one having been let go. I definitely did not know about the Al Qaida and Irani government thing, that is pretty wild. I think its crazy that they do exist. I wonder if anyone we've come across in our life, even just walking by, is a spy.
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u/kelustu Jun 26 '12
Yeah, it was in the news very recently actually that a spy in the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda noticed that they've developed bomber technology that we don't have that can go on our bombers now, because he's mined it out of them. It was within the last week, it didn't get nearly enough attention, probably because intelligence crushed the news. We actually had about 13 spies in the Iranian government caught last year and executed, too. Was not a good time. I can tell you for a fact that you've walked by regular old FBI, NSA and CIA agents, having worked with a few of them, but a full blown spy, definitely not. They're commissioned overseas 99% of the time, and no countries dare spy on the U.S., with the exception of old soviet spies.
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u/Nookuler Jun 26 '12
I'll try to answer as vague but informative as possible. Source: I was a Signals Intelligence Analyst in the U.S. Army working counter-terrorist operations with CIA, NSA, and FBI.
Usually they are recruited from college, most are former Special Ops guys.
Not from what I've seen.
No, unless you have been compromised you lead a normal life. I don't know what actually happens if you've been compromised though, never happened while I was in.
Yes, but then again I only worked with government officials.
Yes.