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CIA Hiring Failed Wall Street Analysts

D&S Admin Jun 19, 2009

According to the Wall Street Journal, the CIA is recruiting out of work financial analysts from Wall Street.

Why would they seek out the financial expertise of the people most directly responsible for the global economic meltdown?

We can only hope that this explanation is only a cover for their real mission: covertly placing Wall Street's failed finest in charge of the financial and economic sectors of our worst enemies.

--d.f.

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