Apparently British intelligence can't meet its hiring needs in the usual ways, so the spymasters are thinking outside the box when it comes to new ways to reach "an Internet-savvy generation of graduate groups." The Government Communications Headquarters, charged with signals intelligence and information assurance, is starting to place ads in real-time online games like "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent" and "Need for Speed: Carbon." The ads appear as posters reading "Careers in British Intelligence," visible to players as they run by on the way to assassinate another terrorist or whatever. "We find increasingly we have to use less conventional means of attracting people ... to go beyond glossy brochures and magazine ads," said an anonymous GCHQ spokesman. "We will monitor the results from this campaign and are ready to change our recruitment methods. We know we can't stand still." Gamers may be disappointed to find that GCHQ is mostly looking for software engineers, not gun-toting covert agents. Then again, maybe some of the illusions of glamor started to drop away when MI5 began advertising on the sides of London buses earlier this summer.
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Her Majesty would like you on her Secret Service!
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