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do you realize how specifically you have to know the right person for an individual in the intel community to even remotely come close to knowing anything similar to this? not only are there over 100,000 that technically "work" in the intel community. 95% of those are not even in operations. even 5% of those in the field, 90% of those are working in intel related to external sources.
so what is that, we're down to the last .5% of individual who happen to work in operations, who happen to work on foreign/domestic actors within US who happen to focus in SF? yes, focus in SF, because people in the field don't have intel on what neighboring fields are doing unless they are "read-on." that's what sensitive comparmentalized information means--that you don't have any access unless you're directly involved with supporting that specific operation.
it's very highly likely that you're with some dweeb that works some support role, probably not even intel related. I can't even begin to tell you how many incompetent people work in this arena and how much even love to exaggerate and that they're part of something 'important'
gl on your journey
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all subjective of course as different people look for different things but it can get the ball rolling. best of luck every1
that being said, i had to do a little bit of leetcode instructions + books + algoexperts + youtube to really grasp all the gaps I had in my knowledge.
everyone has their own preferred way, i just wanted to share that it took various resources for me.