These highly classified positions are hard to fill, and there's a lot of

testing and background checks involved before you can even be considered

for the position.

After sending some applicants through the background checks, training

and testing, they narrowed the possible choices down to 3 men, but only

one position was available.

The day came for the final test to see which man would get the extremely

secretive job.  The CIA men administering the test took one of the men

to a large metal door and handed him a gun.  "We must know that you will

follow your instructions no matter what the circumstances", they

explained. "Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a

chair.  Take this gun and kill her."

The man got a shocked look on his face and said "You can't be serious! I

could never shoot my own wife!"  "Well", says the CIA man, "You're

definitely not the right man for this job then."  So they bring the

second man to the same door and hand him a gun.  "We must know that you

will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances", they

explained to the second man, "Inside you will find your wife sitting in

a chair.  Take this gun and kill her."

The second man looked a bit shocked, but nevertheless took the gun and

went in the room.  All was quiet for about 5 minutes, then the door

opened.  The man came out of the room with tears in his eyes.  "I tried

to shoot her, I just couldn't pull the trigger and shoot my wife.  I

guess I'm not the right man for the job."  "No" the CIA man replied, "You

don't have what it takes.  Take your wife and go home."

Now they're down to one man left to test.  Again they lead him to the

same door to the same room and hand him the same gun.  "We must be sure

that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances, this

is your final test.  Inside you will find your wife sitting in a chair.

Take this gun and kill her."

The third man took the gun and opened the door.  Before the door even

closed all the way, the CIA heard the gun start firing.  One shot after

another for 13 shots.  Then they heard screaming, crashing, banging on

the walls.  This went on for several minutes, then all went quiet.  The

door opened slowly, and there stood the third man.

He wiped the sweat from his brow and said "You guys didn't tell me the

gun was loaded with blanks!  I had to beat the bitch to death with the