Recruiting Archives

Recruiting

Where Health Care Won’t Go

by Helen Ouyang,

A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt

Agent Provocateur

From an FBI manual suggesting conversational techniques to recruit informants. The document was published by The Intercept in January.

Selective Service

by John Crowley,

It may have been that I neglected to register with the Selective Service System when I turned eighteen, in 1960, as the law required. Or maybe my student deferment, available…

American Hustle

by Alexandra Starr,

How elite youth basketball exploits African athletes

Manual of Trickery and Self-Deception

From a recently declassified article, written by an author whose name was redacted, published in the winter 1986 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the in-house journal of the CIA.

Vacay-47

From blog posts on Paladin of Jihad offering advice for Western Muslims preparing to migrate (or “make hijra”) to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State.

Guns and Poses

by Sarah A. Topol,

Smuggling and subterfuge in the North African desert

Artful Dodger

From a note sent in 1917 to the Appeal Tribunal in Middlesex, England, which reviewed requests for exemption from military service during World War I. The note is included in…

Dodge the Draft!

by James Marcus,

Ever since the last draft was ended, in 1973, a small but devoted chorus of pundits, legislators, and retired military men have been stumping for its return. These are not…

Dancing with headhunters

by G.J. Meyer,

Scenes from the downsized life

We’re looking for a few good spies

by Harper’s Staff,