Every year, the federal government spends an estimated $3 billion of your tax dollars on the Central Intelligence Agency. Other than the supposed protection a sophisticated international clandestine espionage network provides the nation’s citizens, what do we actually get for our share of CIA budget? Nothing.
In the interest of getting something for my taxes, and because I think espionage is kind of cool, I asked former CIA agent Jason Hanson to reveal the best life hacks his CIA training could provide.
According to his biography, Hanson spent seven years in the CIA as an agent with a top secret security clearance. After retiring from the agency in 2005, he started the Tactical Spy School in Utah, got $150k in funding on Shark Tank, and wrote some best-selling books (Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life, and Agent of Influence: How to Use Spy Skills to Persuade Anyone, Sell Anything, and Build a Successful Business), all in order to “help good, honest Americans stay safer and be more prepared in the crazy and unpredictable world that we live in.”
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