Double-O-One, Secret Service Agent?

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I’m a thriller writer, after all, and my second novel Mindgame is populated with spies and counter-spies. Ever since I was a kid, I loved the old TV series Mission: Impossible and these days, I’ve been a great fan of Alias - and of course, seen all 3 Tom Cruise Missions.

My surname, Ooi, is a common surname in Malaysia but it’s unusual in the UK. It can look like 001 if printed in capitals (OOI) and people sometimes laugh when they see it for the first time and joke that I am Double-O-One.

So when the CIA posts up a recruitment ad on YouTube, looking for clandestine operatives, I took notice.

Watch the ad here:

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The Agency also has a page on Facebook.com, a social networking site (like MySpace) for college students. You need to register to access the CIA page there..

An article on Wired News gives more detail - read it here.

I was about to type “Do come back and add a comment if you apply to the CIA” but of course, if you did, you wouldn’t be able to tell us about it!

Or, if you fancy yourself more James Bond than Felix Leiter, then you could sign up to the British Secret Service ….