Quote:Fact straight from the horse's mouth (more like the horse's ass): If you fail the CIA polygraph, either through disqualifying admissions or some other crap, you are blacklisted from ever gaining CIA employment for the rest of your life. Unless you can change your name and SSN. If you reapply, the Office of Security gets their dirty fingers in the mix early in the process, and if you are selected for recruitment, they run your SSN for a preliminary check before your COE. When your polygraph history shows up, you are instantly rejected. This info is straight from CIA. Don't believe that stuff about reapplying in one year, you can, but you have no chance of getting in.
EXACTLY! The same is also true if one has "failed" the BI, no matter how incompetently or unfairly it was conducted. The recruiters have no knowledge of, much less play any role in whatever the Office of Security ultimately decides.
I was, on more than one occasion, told by Agency recruiters that I was a likely candidate for an offer of employment, based on my qualifications and interests. On one occasion, I was even approached by the Agency (and not the other way around!), with respect to employment. Unfortunately those prospects were f*cked up by the results of a previous BI still on file at the Office of Security from an old application made to their summer college "intern" program.
Thank you, Snowdens I and II, for your valiant efforts to expose the hiring scams run by Langley and Ft. Meade. I only wish that I'd been smart enough to think of trying to re-apply with a new SSN! LOL
I sincerely hope to have fulfilled the wishes of the polygraph examiner I dealt with at Langley, who once asked if my intent in applying to work there was to cause the Agency "harm". In those naive days, I had absolutely no idea as to what he meant, nor why an applicant for employment would want to even consider performing such a nefarious deed.
Now, countless years older and infinitely wiser, I propose to spend every one of my remaining days to fulfill the worthy expectation that this charlatan/polygrapher so nobly instilled in me so many years ago.