Wall Street wizards may soon be plying their trade on the James Bond market.
The CIA is looking to hire the same investment bankers and financial gurus that many hold responsible for sinking the economy to help President Obama pick up the pieces — and also catch a few millionaire terrorists.
The spy agency started advertising the jobs on Bloomberg Radio, hoping to recruit investment bankers, top analysts and hedge fund honchos to use their “intelligence for the work of a nation.”
The $160,000 salary is probably a huge pay cut for many of the disgraced masters of the universe.
Private interviews are set for June 22 at a secret Manhattan location. Don’t call, the CIA says, just e-mail your information.
With Obama expanding his reach into the business world to carry out his economic recovery, he’s demanding more insider expertise from financial pros in the trenches, sources said.
The agency says it needs Wall Street’s guidance for everything from tracking where Afghan drug traffickers park their billions to which economies are the most vulnerable to manipulation.