Susan Miller

And where are you?

I'm in the Washington DC area.

So yeah, I was a, back in the day, a print journalism major at California Polytech.

You remember the days before we had all this technical stuff, we had to go to the career center and look for applications to things?

Yeah.

I went down to the Career Center and I was looking for an application for like, you know, the Washington Post, the New York Times, you know, all these small newspapers, big newspapers all over the country.

You know, this board that said, come work for the Central Intelligence Agency.

And my friend and I looked at that and we're like, is this a joke?

you know, and kind of looking around, somebody's looking at us.

And so we both grabbed one of these and I'm like, let's just send it in for a lark, you know, and then see what happens.

And then they because most of us were going to be going apparently to Central America or South America because of Contras and stuff like that.

They made us go through a three month paramilitary course.

Uzis, submachine guns, shoulder-launched rockets, we had to learn air ops.

I wanted to work the Soviet target.

What we did have is a Soviet branch in every single embassy, both on the State Department side as well as the agency side in every single place, because we were so worried about the Soviets and their influence abroad and what they were doing here and what they were doing there.

And it was also places, that's where we would actually recruit agents working for us, meaning sources from embassies that we would cultivate, find out, are you pro-American?

Do you love the Soviet Union?

Do you want money?

Do you like this?

Do you like that?