“I was looking at terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, providing targeting packages to the Department of Defense - things like that, monitoring those camps.”įor Walder, then a 22-year-old fascinated by terrorism, it was a dream come true. That's actually how everyone's training begins,” Tracy Walder, an ex-CIA and FBI officer told SPYSCAPE’s True Spies. “Just sitting in a cubicle in your office, really, getting to know what they're doing there. In fact, depending on the role, it can start by driving a desk. I'm sure none of the tradecraft that I learned is even relevant anymore, but that particular skill is very, very relevant." ĬIA training doesn’t actually begin with a daring ski chase down the crest of a Swiss glacier while dodging a megalomaniacal Russian villain. Now it's a completely different game from when I left. And I think that can be difficult when you're in this constant game of pretend. "And it also just allows you to be quiet enough that you can hear yourself. "At the Farm, they actually teach you meditation, which is so out of whack with everything else you learn," former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox told SPYSCAPE's The Spying Game podcast. It's not all about spooking and sleuthing, however. Top candidates spend at least six months at the Farm, the ultra-secret 9,000-acre military base in Virginia where spies master 007-style skills from shooting Glocks and M4s to parachuting, speed boating, and recruiting assets. That’s why US intelligence operatives practice dead drops, brush passes, and surveillance skills in the most elite spy training program on Earth.
If you want to operate in the big leagues, you’ll need top spy tradecraft.
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