Wanted: Spies, No Remote Work, And Must Leave Cell Phone At Home

Germany's foreign intelligence service, BND, is hiring spies. The job does not offer remote work, and applicants must leave their cell phones at home.

Intelligence services are finding it harder to recruit staff since the pandemic as prospects want to work from home and would rather not part with their personal cell phones, the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service BND said on Monday.

"We cannot offer certain conditions that are taken for granted today," said Bruno Kahl, who described finding enough and the right staff as a great challenge as baby boomers are heading into retirement.

The CIA uploaded a short video in Russian on YouTube and the Telegram messaging app, using them as platforms to recruit Russian spies.

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