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Criminals who got trained and became, say, CIA agents or FBI or soldiers of war.


Given how many ordinary non-criminal and non-violent men, and sometimes women, of all types tend to enter these life threatening, human enemy battling to death professions, VOLUNTARILY, is that really a good and effective way to punish some criminals instead of jail or a death sentence, and in some war related times, battle fronts, as in, there instead of a jail or a death sentence, but why would even LESS than stellar governments want downright BAD people to end up as heroes of any kind?

Then again, how do good people in the Army or the FBI or the CIA imagine themselves getting ALONG with someone or working with someone who is or was a violent criminal guilty of a serious crime?

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If you're referring to the Bush family, it was the other way around; it *started* in the CIA.

"I can explain, Reverend Snow."

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It can do.

But I also remember seeing some late 90s made for TV action film, can't remember the name, it had Mark Dacascos in it, and it had some drug dealer at the end who, after a huge big battle, got arrested, and then they took him to work for CIA (I believe) and trained him rather than sending him to prison or anything like that.

Some people have suggested that this is what may or should have happened to Liz Hurley's character in Passenger 57, lol.

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That late 90's thing... could it have been an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond?

Larry just got back from sensitivity training, so he needs some cheering up.

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Frank Abagnale Jr. If you have seen Catch Me If You Can, you'll know who I'm talking about

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Anyone know anymore real life examples of criminals getting trained and becoming CIA Agents or FBI etc, movie examples of course also include Luc Besson's classic "Nikita" (1990) and its 1993 remake "Point of No Return" with Bridget Fonda. Instead of giving that lady a death sentence, they trained her to be a CIA assassin.

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Also, how DID those droogs that participated in a series of gruesome crimes with Alex in Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) later got recruited to become policemen?

Who the hell would want violent criminals becoming cops just like that instead of going to prison for their deeds?

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Noriega

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Who is Noriega, if I may ask, is that a political figure from, Norway?

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lol

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