A former CIA spy has revealed that the agency hires people with a certain level of fear and says it is actually seen as a 'super power'.
Andrew Bustamante, who has worked secretly as a CIA officer for seven years, said that the organization is actively looking for people with the condition because they naturally attente, are a shift and have a stronger memory.
“Fear is a super power in the world of espionage,” he said. “It keeps you alive, it keeps you sharp.”
Bustamante, however, noted that fear can be very harmful if a person does not know how to train it.
“Everyone who is fear knows the spiral that comes from fear,” he said. “What the CIA does is that they teach us how to restore, repair and maintain our energy reserves, our mental health.”
Bustamante explained that his wife, who is also a CIA agent, suffers from fear, but has learned how to stay 'healthy' by having a routine.
That routine consists of the same food in the morning that it could get anywhere in the world, such as eggs and hot tea.
“It is a very predictable, calming anti-angle stroutine,” said Bustamante. “People do not realize that 90 percent of your fear that you will feel during the day has actually been established in the first two hours of your day.”
Andrew Bustamante, who has worked secretly as a CIA officer for seven years, said that the organization is actively looking for people with the condition because they are naturally attentive, slower and have a stronger memory
Bustamante was recruited by the CIA after he had left the US Air Force and registered the Peace Corps.
While he was at the Air Force, he specialized in nuclear intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) operations, using medals in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Bustamante believes that the techniques that form international events can also serve daily people in their daily lives.
Bustamante spoke on his podcast Everyday Spy and shared how the CIA helps his agents use their fear forever.
“So if you start your day and there are many changes, threats or confusion, you have determined almost 90 percent certainty that you will have a lot of fear all day,” he said.
“But if you can start in low anxiety status for the first two hours of your day, you can present and protect your energy reserves for the rest of the day.”
Bustamante explained that most people failed in the morning, reaching for caffeine, checking their phone and catching up the news.
“All these things cause them fear, and the only thing they do is to ruin them for the rest of their time,” he said.
Bustamante explained that his wife, who is also a CIA agent, suffers from fear, but has learned how to stay 'healthy' by having a routine
He insisted on people not to set an alarm on their phone and another on the device for when they can pick it up.
'If instead, if you simply set an alarm on your phone for when you can
So then You wake up, you can't even touch your phone so that you can't look for things, “he said.
Another former CIA agent shared other insights into the office's recruitment practices and revealed that it looks like people with sociopathic tendencies.
A 'sociopath' is someone who misses empathy, ignores the feelings of others and can manipulate or harm people without remorse, often for their own personal gain.
John Kiriakou, who had a 14-year career as a CIA officer, said: “Sociopaths are impossible to control.
'They glide through the cracks because they have no conscience and they pass the polygraaf very easily because they don't feel guilty.
Someone who has some of these qualities tend to rise to the highest levels of the CIA.
“People who have sociopathic tendencies have a conscience, but are still completely happy to work in moral legal and ethical gray areas,” said Kiriakou.
Kiriakou admitted that he falls into the category of sociopathic tendencies and explained how he was 'happy to break into the houses of people and plants insects'.
The former officer used the idea that he was part of the good and that his country needed him as a way to feed his sociopathic tendencies.
Kiriakou gave a question that was asked to him during the CIA recording interview.
'They said,' You know that Mr X has something in his house that you need, whether it is a file or whatever. You need it. And you work on him to recruit him, so that he eventually transfers that file to you. '
“But he's not recruitment. And finally, when you ask him for the file, he tells you, no. What are you doing? '
“I said, I break into the house and take the file.” Seemed a perfect logical answer to me. '
The former CIA officer explained that because he believed that he was part of the good boys, Mr. X was certainly a bad guy, such as a Russian scientist.
