Psychopaths Preferred: Israel’s Mossad In Search Of New Recruits

Israel’s Mossad comes in from the cold in search for new recruits

Israel’s infamous spy agency drops secretive cloak-and-dagger approach and goes online to seek out potential agents

Monday 29 September 2014

The bullet-proof booth in Tel Aviv where Adolf Eichmann sat trial in 1961. The capture of the Nazi mastermind was the agency's most famous operation to date. Photograph: Dan Balilty/AP

It used to be that if you wanted to join one of the world’s most secretive espionage organisations you had to sneak into a foreign embassy, answer a cryptic newspaper ad or show up in a nondescript building in Tel Aviv to meet a shadowy recruiter. Now, all it takes to apply for a job at Israel’s Mossad spy agency is a click of the mouse.
The usually shadowy Mossad revamped its website last week to include a recruiting video and an online application option for those seeking employment. With versions in Hebrew, English, French, Russian, Arabic and Persian, the site looks to revolutionise the way Israel’s infamous agency seeks out potential agents after generations of backdoor, cloak-and-dagger antics.

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