No CIA Career for AC
Most people don’t know this but while he was at Yale, Anderson interned for the CIA. He was offered a job after graduation but turned it down to pursue a career in journalism. Cooper stated it was “pretty bureaucratic” and referred to the work at “mundane.”
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Fake Press Pass
After graduation, and feeling the pressure to support himself financially, Anderson tried to get an entry-level job at ABC. He was denied. He really wanted to be a war correspondent and was getting frustrated at all the doors closing. He decided to take matters into his own hands and asked a friend to make him a fake press pass so he could sneak into places like Burma, Somalia, and Iraq. Using his own camera, he videotaped himself in dangerous areas, creating his own news shorts.
Burma Student Protest
