Step 1: Lie to the government about having previously worked in intelligence overseas.
Step 2: Lie to the government about having designed the Polaris missile guidance system.
Step 3: Lie to the government about having competed in the Winter Olympics.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: PROFIT.
So you're saying that before we employ spies we should check their backgrounds? Sorry, we're not very good at this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351473/New-Zealand-government-embarrassed-employing-British-born-fantasist-senior-intelligence-officer.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
QuoteStephen Wilce's action-packed career appeared to rival the great heroes of thriller stories.
The British-born military scientist had worked as a spy, served with the Duke of York as a helicopter pilot, competed in the Winter Olympics, captained a Royal Navy swimming team and was a special forces soldier who ended up on an IRA death list.
He also boasted that he had designed the Polaris missile guidance system, that he was a member of the Welsh national rugby union team and, last but not least, that he was a guitarist on the British folk music circuit.
The only trouble was that Wilce's yarns were just that – total fiction
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It has all proved very embarrassing for the New Zealand government, who employed the British expat as a senior intelligence officer.
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The CV he tendered impressed a defence panel so much that he was given top level security clearance.
He oversaw 80 staff and had access to highly classified intelligence.
On the other hand, being able to make a story like that seem convincing would be a necessary prerequisite for intelligence work.
:lulz: That's pretty ballsy.
This man should be given a medal.
Promote him.
Unfortunately, he has to be let go.
Overqualified.