The CIA alone receives over 10,000 applications a month. But getting a job in intelligence is very competitive. Be a citizen. You must be a citizen of your country and so must the rest of your close family.There are roles without travel, but you will limit your chances. Most spies have to travel to foreign countries. MI6, for example, requires a minimum of an upper-second class degree. Most intelligence organisations expect their officers to have a good education. They often give drug tests to applicants. Any criminal record is likely to end your application. Translators, analysts, and IT work are less glamorous, but just as vital. Intelligence agencies have lots of other roles besides intelligence officer. Still here? Right, let’s talk about how to become a spy, or as they’re really called an intelligence officer. Instead, there will be lots of normal, boring hard work, like any job.Īre you sure you want to do this? Becoming a Spy: Before you apply So, let’s summarise the most important lesson about becoming a spy: there will be no guns, no fighting, no fast cars and no sexy foreign agents. One movie that was quite realistic was Complicit. It might be worth watching that. The work of the agent in the Intelligence Department is on the whole extremely monotonous. A lot of it is uncommonly useless. Here’s what Somerset Maugham, who was a spy for MI6, said about being a real spy in his novel Ashenden: Most people realise that James Bond and Jason Bourne are not realistic, but even supposedly realistic spies, like the ones John le Carré writes about, are not much like real spying.
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