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Does anyone have any experience or sources/interviews of Physicians that work in the CIA? The CIA website here Physician — Central Intelligence Agency doesn't really offer much in detail about the duties and job description.
There was an old thread here Cia back in 2007 that asked the same question and there wasn't much information available at that time also. In the thread there were conflicting answers; "Medical Officers (I'm assuming that's the job title for CIA Physician) are 'overt personnel' involved with treatment for covert operators". One said that physicians do mostly analyst work, and another said they do operational work. That sounds like too much of a cool-guy response to be true. What does overt and covert, even mean?
That post was in 2007
In 2014, when the news of CIA 'black sites' and the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' went public reports like this one from the Washington Times explicitly, states "CIA medical doctors (Im guessing medical officers are different?), as well as psychologists, were intimately involved in virtually every interrogation session to a far greater extent than was previously known" CIA report describes medical personnel’s intimate role in harsh interrogations
I didn't read the full 600 page report that was put on Wikileaks, but there are multiple articles that detail the role and a little bit of what was happening behind the scenes. 10 years ago it was 2007, if someone was a physician, I feel like more than likely they would have been affected by that policy change.
Im not here to chastise the CIA or create a political debate, I am only a pre-med student, and I am curious about jobs within the federal government that would be available to be as a physician, as I would like to continue to work in the federal government.
The only information that I could get was interviews about what it was like working for the CIA, by other jobs. Which detailed that the CIA is family friendly if you are not undercover, but you are subject to constant interviews about your life. Do physicians in the CIA do typical doctor stuff? (clinical setting) Or do they work within the operations branch (the typical 'spy stuff') of the CIA, or is it a bit of both? Obliviously there are extremes, as probably not every physician was involved in the interrogations, but what is their typical role?
There was an old thread here Cia back in 2007 that asked the same question and there wasn't much information available at that time also. In the thread there were conflicting answers; "Medical Officers (I'm assuming that's the job title for CIA Physician) are 'overt personnel' involved with treatment for covert operators". One said that physicians do mostly analyst work, and another said they do operational work. That sounds like too much of a cool-guy response to be true. What does overt and covert, even mean?
That post was in 2007
In 2014, when the news of CIA 'black sites' and the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' went public reports like this one from the Washington Times explicitly, states "CIA medical doctors (Im guessing medical officers are different?), as well as psychologists, were intimately involved in virtually every interrogation session to a far greater extent than was previously known" CIA report describes medical personnel’s intimate role in harsh interrogations
I didn't read the full 600 page report that was put on Wikileaks, but there are multiple articles that detail the role and a little bit of what was happening behind the scenes. 10 years ago it was 2007, if someone was a physician, I feel like more than likely they would have been affected by that policy change.
Im not here to chastise the CIA or create a political debate, I am only a pre-med student, and I am curious about jobs within the federal government that would be available to be as a physician, as I would like to continue to work in the federal government.
The only information that I could get was interviews about what it was like working for the CIA, by other jobs. Which detailed that the CIA is family friendly if you are not undercover, but you are subject to constant interviews about your life. Do physicians in the CIA do typical doctor stuff? (clinical setting) Or do they work within the operations branch (the typical 'spy stuff') of the CIA, or is it a bit of both? Obliviously there are extremes, as probably not every physician was involved in the interrogations, but what is their typical role?
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