It will go to great lengths to make sure its employees are working at full capacity. Working at an organization as clandestine and famous as the CIA is a mixed blessing. Interns have to get used to the fact that the nature of their work is almost always secret. But just being at the CIA is a kick. The atmosphere at the CIA is like no other.
Employees are fiercely loyal to the agency.
There's a feeling here that we're all in this together. We all depend on each other. . . . The CIA runs a summer speaker series for its interns. Town meetings are led by a top dog of the agency, often a deputy director of one the divisions, the general counsel, or the director of the agency. The last is the real McCoy when it comes to what one would envision the CIA compound to be.