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The propoganda vibes are pretty high for me.
by sicp-enjoyer 4y ago
The propoganda vibes are pretty high for me.
- pazimzadeh 4y agoYeah this feels like a submarine article
- implements 4y agoIt’s certainly a PR piece - I wondered what the purpose was beyond the obvious and naive ‘getting more women into Intelligence’? Elsewhere there’s been news stories about British MPs complaining that the security and intelligence services have too high a media profile … so perhaps there’s some ‘push and pull’ going on behind the scenes.
- fit2rule 4y ago
- lmz 4y agoWell maybe this is just to reach out to the target audience that reads the FT instead of Mumsnet (which was mentioned in the article as one of the places they advertised on).
- bpye 4y ago> Elsewhere there’s been news stories about British MPs complaining that the security and intelligence services have too high a media profile … so perhaps there’s some ‘push and pull’ going on behind the scenes. Likely true. I can only really talk for GCHQ, but they have certainly made a significant effort in recruitment for years, growing up near a GCHQ ground station we had a visit during my final year pre-university to try and sell us on working there. I'm fairly sure that GCHQ was also at my university's careers fair. The security services (MI5, MI6, GCHQ) really don't pay very well in the UK as they are on the same civil service pay scale as the rest of government. I'm hardly surprised they struggle to hire against private companies.
- mpalfrey 4y agoApparently there are some companies who are suppliers to these organisations who do pay better, but otherwise, yes. The salaries are pretty poor. I get that some people would want to work there for the kudos, but compared to tech companies the advertised salaries aren't great.
- alwayseasy 4y agoIts pretty explicit PR when the journalist explains meeting people from the SIS right in the first sentence :)
- eternalban 4y agoFT just raising their skirt a bit, showing ankles. The relationship between international finance and intelligence goes back to Napoleonic wars.
- fahadkhan 4y agoReminds me of Mary Poppins "When fall the banks of England, England falls!"
- heywherelogingo 4y ago
- tfsh 4y agoIn what sense is the UK like Russia?
- phone8675309 4y agoRight now? People across the UK are getting a small taste of what Leningrad felt like in the winters of 1942 and 1943.
- 451mov 4y agoNo. No they are not.
- 082349872349872 4y agohttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Page_168 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa... > The lower down the echelon, the nearer the armies of the world came to standardizing psychological warfare organization. They did this for the same reason that they all organize into regiments instead of centuries, cohorts, or tribes. Modern war is a self-standardizing process if the enemy experience is to be copied, enemy techniques improved, allied assistance accepted, and military practice kept up to world standards. Psychological warfare units needed printing and radio sections; to service these sections they all needed intelligence and analysis offices; to distribute their materials they all needed agents and liaison. Black propaganda organization varied more than did white, but it was amazing to Americans, uncovering Japanese subversive-operations units, to see how much the Japanese organization resembled their own.
- aaron695 4y ago
- kjellsbells 4y agoMaybe so, but theres a very telling line in the article about assault and how the agency helped them recover. Propaganda or not, this is still exceptionally dangerous work. Potential recruits need to seriously consider if they can tell themselves it was worth it on both sides of such an event. If Britain continues its self destructive slide into irrelevance, that may not be a good deal.