The CIA explicitly forbids officers from dating their sources, but it happens and gets quietly buried. The agency treats male and female officers differently: men are seen as lacking self-control, women as easy targets for foreign honey traps.
It is totally forbidden for a CIA officer to have a romantic relationship with one of their sources.
Like, you get fired for that?
You could and probably should get fired, but it has happened. Sure. And it's been brushed under the carpet. And I will say this, it happens a lot more with male case officers. Yeah, they have less self-control. Yeah. And I mean, it's funny because there was a little bit of a double standard at the agency at the time that I was there, and I think there still is, that, you know, women are weaker and they would be more susceptible to the wiles of foreign and intelligent, and throughout the course of history, whether it be the CIA, the Marines, you know, the Secret Service, respectfully, it's always like the men who are just fucking stupid or, you know, naive or whatever, and they think that this woman who's really interested in them, and sure enough, it's like a Russian spy or a honey pot.
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