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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.