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For the first time ever, the C.I.A. has launched a national radio advertising campaign aimed at recruiting more spies for clandestine service. In particular, the agency is looking for more minorities and those with advanced foreign language skills. According to Time Magazine, the C.I.A. is not hurting for applications. It received more that 100,000 resumes last year and the number is growing fast. Did you see our recent post about federal jobs (in particular C.I.A. jobs) being the hot ticket for young people?

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Once again, it is Monday morning. Oh, how the the weeks are flying by. Before you know it, we will be packing up our families and heading to the shore for summer vacations. Well, that actually does seem far away at this point. Regardless, it is Monday and it’s time to get down to business with the “Monday Morning News Kick Off.” Today’s theme is all about cybersecurity. Read more below.

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For our “Friday’s Food for Thought” column, we seem to be taking a more thematic approach. Last week, we covered the environment. And the week before that, all the “positive” news around the horn. This week, we are sticking with the Young Professionals theme. You all may have seen yesterday’s post on this topic. Well, today, we have decided to take it one step further. We hope you enjoy.

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As the concept of GEOINT, along with the proliferation of consumer mapping and Web 2.0 tools, has grown over the past five years, so has the overall interest of young people looking for a promising and challenging career in the field. We all know it vital to nurture the next generation of government employees — particularly those interested in a career in the intelligence community. A major mission for the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is to provide a spotlight on young GEOINTers and to showcase how a a career in GEOINT can be challenging and very exciting.

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Let’s face it. We rarely see rock stars out in public. As much as we would love to run into Keith Richards at the grocery store, or local pub, it just does not happen. They seems to live on a different plane than us regular folks. So, we were surprised to find this news story about Google Street View capturing an image of Oasis frontman, Liam Gallagher, enjoying a pint of beer outside of a local pub in north London.

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Last week, new C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent along a memo to his his troops upon coming home from his first big trip abroad to India and Pakistan. The intention of the memo was to convey how impressed he was with the professionalism and dedication of agency personnel. He also noted that he watched a number of spy flicks like The Bourne Identity and said that Hollywood gets it all wrong:

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We are very excited to announce that we have secured an exclusive podcast with Mr. Robert Zitz, Deputy Associate Director at United States Secret Service and true GEOINT Visionary. Mr. Zitz shares with us the exciting opportunities and challenges that lay ahead for the GEOINT community. In addition, Mr. Zitz discusses bringing Keyhole Viewer to life — which ultimately became Google Earth. Click below to listen to the podcast.

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As many of you may have seen last week, USGIF member, GeoEye made available its first high-resolution imagery from its GeoEye-1 satellite on Google Earth. We recommend you peruse the Google Earth preview site to check out the images. In addition, we have pulled a few key images for your enjoyment below.

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We hope everyone had a restful weekend. To kick off our work week, we have a number of stories that are what we call “actionable,” meaning news news you can use. Friday’s Food for Thought is the space for all things strange, interesting and somewhat sublime. Monday morning, it’s all about business. And business time it is. Well, perhaps there is one story at the end of this post that may be more of a fit for Friday’s post. Happy Monday!

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Does anyone remember the kids’ TV show from the 70′s called “The Big Blue Marble”? While the show was more about embracing a multicultural existence for children, we are bringing it up more because the “big blue marble” seems to be popping up in the news. From our recent post on the intelligence community acknowledging climate change as a national security threat to mapping shoreline erosion off of the Chesapeake Bay, the environment keeps coming up. So, for our Friday’s Food for Thought, we decided to go with an environmental theme. Hope you enjoy.

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