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There is a real-life James Olson, and he's a former CIA agent who did espionage work in multiple countries, from France, to Soviet Russia, to even North Korea (how a white spy managed to blend in North Korea beats me). I got to meet him on a couple of occasions. Here are some de-classified things that I learned:
- The CIA has professors on college campuses who "spot" people with potential.
- Married CIA agents who go into the field together are a thing.
- Said married couples are allowed to, if they wish, reveal the nature of their jobs to their children when they're old enough to keep a secret.
- Those gadgets in James Bond films? That sounds like it belongs only in fiction, but apparently the CIA has stuff like that.
- Those masks in Mission Impossible films? That sounds like it belongs only in fiction, but apparently the CIA has stuff like that.
- The CIA used to only recruit from Ivy League colleges, but now they hire from everywhere, and they love people from Iowa. Apparently people from my rural school, and my college, have gone on to become CIA agents, although we have no idea who. Within the agency, there's a joke that the CIA is run by "the Iowan Mafia."
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