![]() It was American slang for "a clown" and it was decades out of date. Almost forty years out of date when our class of potential hires took it, the test inquired quaintly through a number of questions whether the respondent considered him or herself a "cut up" in high school. The first indication that people at the agency were asleep at the switch came with the use of a 1956 edition of a personality test called the California Psychological Inventory. It wore out over the course of the experience. The process took about a year to complete, its length and rigor attributed to the great importance of its classified mission plus a purported desire to get just the right kind of people - America's best. Book Review At the beginning of the Nineties, this journalist went through the Central Intelligence Agency's hiring process. ![]()
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