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Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits

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80 points churchill | 2 comments | 01 May 23 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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cashsterling ◴[01 May 23 14:50 UTC] No.35773559[source]▶
I worked with an ex-Mormon guy for about a year or so who was an ex-CIA contractor. He said there are a lot Mormons in the CIA as well and they called it the "Mormon Mafia" (mostly in a joking manner). So when he'd meet new people within the CIA who were Mormon they would sometimes ask him, "Mormon Mafia?", if they suspected he was Mormon.

This guy did his mission in Russia and speaks Russian... so there you go. He had some crazy stories about doing mission work in Russia. He was almost killed several times.

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abtinf ◴[01 May 23 15:44 UTC] No.35774466[source]▶
Note that “mission” in the parent comment likely refers the practice of certain Christian sects that send out evangelists to proselytize in another geographic area. It probably is not referring to CIA operations.

(Posting this because there is a dead peer comment that seems to have misunderstood).

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1. blendergeek ◴[01 May 23 16:01 UTC] No.35774741[source]▶
The LDS church specifically has a practice where many young LDS members go on a "mission" for two years. In fact it is so common that almost every LDS member would understand the phrase "[a specific person]'s mission" to refer to that two year mission for proselytizing.
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2. throwaway60607 ◴[01 May 23 17:00 UTC] No.35775676[source]▶
Yeah but this site probably isn't composed of mostly Mormons