Wall Street Firms and Hedge Funds recruit CIA, Ex-Military Intelligence

Date: Monday, February 22, 2010
Author: Hedgetracker.com

Wall Street firms and hedge funds are actively recruiting former CIA and military intelligence officers in a bid to boost their security and risk management practices by looking for expertise outside the corporate world. Financial firms are particularly eager to recruit former Afghan and Iraq war vets with intelligence operations experience since they can bring new technology and techniques to research and analysis, according to Michael Bagley, founder and president of Washington D.C.-based financial intelligence firm, The OSINT Group