CIA Officer Says Wife Recruited from Buddhist Social Work Despite Anxiety Disorder

What was said

"My wife is a Buddhist social worker who worked for a Jewish nonprofit in Florida because that's what she wanted to do with her life. She was recruited by CIA out of that. She thought CIA was the devil. But she was also $80,000 in law school debt. And CIA was like, hey, we see that you have $80,000 in law school debt. If you come work for us for 5 years, we'll forgive your debt."

A former CIA officer reveals his wife was recruited from Jewish Family Services, where she worked helping refugees and underprivileged people, despite having an anxiety disorder and viewing the CIA as 'the devil.' The agency leveraged her $80,000 law school debt to recruit her as a human intelligence targeter responsible for identifying collection and neutralization targets. He explains her anxiety disorder actually made her better at the job due to hypervigilance and obsessive attention to detail.