SINGAPORE: In the starting scenes of an episode of The Blacklist, a female Chinese agent is assassinated. She's said to be an agent from Singapore's Security and Intelligence Division , which is mentioned alongside other better-known acronyms - the KGB, CIA, MI6 - in the American crime thriller.
The misconceptions are not a surprise as SID only just launched a website on Monday - 55 years after the agency was set up in 1966.Officially, SID is known to be Singapore’s external intelligence agency under the Ministry of Defence . Michael shared that other intelligence agencies have recruited talent from websites and social media and been successful.
"As time moved on, the threats became a bit more complex in the sense that you didn't know where it was coming from," said Michael, who listed cyberthreats and information warfare as examples of evolving security threats. In the past, the agency largely recruited fresh graduates, but it has expanded its pool of mid-career entrants, and they include economists, lawyers and even a"banker" who helped them make sense of financial systems, he said.Sophie, a senior analyst who has been with the agency for eight years, told reporters how she was recruited, which she said was"typical".
When people asked her where she works, she told them that she works at MINDEF, and that her work is"sensitive", she said. Michael, who was in operations for a decade before moving to corporate roles such as strategic planning, human resources and training, shared that he was involved in multi-agency operations to round up Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists who had fled Singapore in the early 2000s.
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