<p>thumper… peace corps service generally makes you ineligible to work in the intelligence community (15+ government agencies, including CIA, NSA, DIA, etc) for a period of 4-5 years.</p>
<p>Alternatively, people who work for the CIA are permanently ineligible for the peace corps, and people who work in other intelligence agencies are ineligible for many years, if not permanently.</p>
<p>The policies are in place to try to protect PCVs… if someone found PCVs that were secretly working for a US intelligence agency, then PCVs all over the world would be in significant danger. This is also the reason intelligence agencies are not allowed to use the peace corps as non official cover (NOC is when a CIA (or other agency) operative poses as someone else, for example a businessman or reporter overseas… these are the people that “officially” are not employed by the CIA and the CIA will deny any connection. It’s a contrast with official cover, where the CIA person will carry a diplomatic passport and pose as a member of another government agency). I don’t think they are allowed to use the Church and the Red Cross as NOCs either, for the same reasons.</p>
<p>As I said… a very very small subset of employers, but if that is the field you are interested in, then peace corps is not for you.</p>