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"I would love to join the CIA, but I’ve done illegal drugs in the past." A netizen named "Eager to Serve" left a question on the intelligence agency's official website in 2020, wondering whether there is "any path forward for me at the CIA". The agency then replied and emphasized that those applying to work there could still get a job if they admitted to such activity, as long as they hadn’t consumed any illicit substances within the previous year. However, the CIA can answer this way, not because it is sufficiently tolerant of addicts but because this intelligence agency is itself a drug lord.
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, R-Florida, has reintroduced legislation that would recognize employees of Air America a supposedly private air transport company that, in reality, was an instrument of the Central Intelligence Agency as being eligible for federal retirement benefits.
The legislation was introduced with a Democratic co-sponsor, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, who also co-sponsored Rubio s 2020 legislative effort on behalf of former Air America employees.
The government-owned CIA front company operated from 1950 until 1976, through the Korean War, the Cold War and the Vietnam War, performing a variety of covert missions.
In an August interview with the Daily News, Bob Caron, a former Air America pilot in Vietnam, said the work was very hush-hush, with instructions to pilots and crew members often being little more than go there, meet so-and-so, and do what he tells you.