Most Replayed Moment: Ex-CIA Reveals What Spies Know About Human Nature

Uh John, how did you come to be a CIA spy? When I was nine years old. I told my parents that I wanted to be a spy when I grew up. It came time to

Apply for college. And I only applied at one university, George Washington University in Washington, because It was two blocks from the White House, and it was one of only three schools in America that offered a Middle Eastern studies program. I was one of only four people in that brand new Middle Eastern Studies program.

I stayed for a master's degree in legislative affairs with a focus on foreign policy analysis. I was taking a class in that program called The Psychology of Leadership. It was taught by an eminent psychiatrist named doctor Gerald Post. And He gave us an assignment.

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