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Central Intelligence Agency: The Language of Espionage
October 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 -- The Central Intelligence Agency issued the following feature story:

CIA Director Gina Haspel

Deep expertise in foreign languages is fundamental to CIA's success. Whether an officer is conducting a meeting in a foreign capital, analyzing plans of a foreign government, or translating a foreign broadcast, language capability is critical to every aspect of our mission. Language skills are the keys to accessing foreign societies, understanding gov . . .

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