<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>I’ve got a funny story about that from my time in Iran. My “boss” had been a PC volunteer sent to Afghanistan to teach, get this, “choral music”. Hmmm. So he ended up running the CIA front organization that employed me! (I had no idea what I had walked into at the time - I thought I’d come to teach English and Shakespeare and be a “goodwill” ambassador of some sort, which I was, but…)</p>
<p>Interesting, but if I do a FOI request, they will find no record of me whatsoever…</p>