Secrecy News: China on WMDs; Interviewing with the NSA
Secrecy News: China On WMDs;
Interviewing with the NSA
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In a new White Paper on nonproliferation, the People's Republic
of China declared its commitment to the abolition of weapons of
mass destruction.
China stands for "the complete prohibition and thorough destruction
of all kinds of WMD, including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons,
and resolutely opposes the proliferation of such weapons and their
means of delivery. China does not support, encourage or assist any
country to develop WMD and their means of delivery," the December
3 White Paper said.
The U.S. government applauded China's stance.
"We welcome the efforts by China to stem the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction, missiles, conventional weapons and
related material and technologies through stricter export
control regulations," said State Department deputy spokesman
Adam Ereli.
INTERVIEWING WITH THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
"The polygraph examination was conducted in a small locked
room."
It may sound like Hemingway, if he had applied to work for a U.S.
intelligence agency.
But it actually comes from an unusual first person account of
the process of applying for employment at the National Security
Agency, from the initial interview to the psychological exam to
the background investigation and the polygraph test.
The author, writing under the pseudonym Ralph J. Perro, provides
a detailed, chatty and somewhat irreverent narrative of the
stages of evaluation of incoming NSA employees. In his case,
the three and a half month clearance process led to his
rejection on unspecified security grounds.
