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Hi, I'm John Kiriaku.

Welcome to Dead Drop, What Makes a Spy Tick.

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When we left off, having told you where I came from

and how my Greek background played an essential role in getting me where I got.

I was recruited by a graduate class professor whose job, it turned out, was to recruit young people like me into the CIA.

Having run the gauntlet of pre-hire testing and interviews, I received a job offer,

though not when you looked at it from the CIA, attended my orientation

and looked forward with anticipation to the first day of the rest of my life. Now, that graduate

school professor who recruited me, Dr. Jerry Post, he was a legend at the CIA. That gave my

recruitment a little extra juice. As Dr. Post told me

directly, while he could open certain doors for me, I was the one who'd have to walk through

them and perform on the other side. That was fair enough. If I could make one plus one equal two,

or three, or four, whatever it needed to be, that extra juice could really work for me.

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