A former government employee's TikTok about her strict dating protocols while working in a sensitive position in Washington has gone viral — and now she's sharing even more information about it.
Brittany Butler, a mother of young children living in the South, is now active on social media, sharing insights and knowledge gained during her time working at the CIA as a “targeting officer.”
Butler recently addressed a topic that's gaining attention on TikTok: dating.
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In a video that now has over 560,000 views, the full-time author discussed what she could and couldn't share with her boyfriends while working for the government.
In the video, she said she had two serious boyfriends in her eight years of work at the CIA.
The former CIA employee worked for eight years at the agency before leaving to focus on her family life. (Brittany Butler)
The first boyfriend, she explained, was Mexican-American and at the time a Harvard Law student.
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“He and I dated for nine months, and I had to tell the CIA that I was in a serious relationship with him,” she said in the TikTok video.
He added: “The rule is that when you have recurring contact with a foreign national, you must report it to the CIA.”
He had to give information about people he saw while working at the CIA, Butler said in his video. (iStock)
Butler said she had to provide her then-employer with her boyfriend's name, his date of birth and a brief historical background.
As for what she could share about her job with her boyfriend, Butler told Fox News Digital that she told the men she was “a consultant for the Department of Defense, making the job seem mundane to avoid further questions.”
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“In Washington, DC, a lot of people work in defense or government roles, so saying I was a 'government consultant' was usually enough and people knew not to probe further,” she told Fox News Digital.
Brittany Butler and her husband, pictured here, met while Butler was working at the CIA. (Brittany Butler)
Butler also began dating her husband while he was working at the CIA.
She told Fox News Digital that the couple had been dating for about four months before she shared her workplace.
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“I could talk to him about work personalities and whether he'd had a good or bad day, but that was it,” she said.
Butler visited Baghdad in 2008 when she was assigned to the Iraq division of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, she said. (Brittany Butler)
He added: “I was unable to discuss specific details about my operational activities due to the clandestine nature of my work.”
“The rule is that when you have recurring contact with a foreign citizen, you must report it to the CIA.”
Butler shared in her TikTok video that her husband was able to tour the CIA headquarters, after giving his Social Security number, where he saw most of the common areas.
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Though she would later work for the CIA full-time, Butler told Fox News Digital that she started as an intern at the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Paris when she was a junior at Florida State University.
Today, Butler is a mother of young children and a writer on a mission, she said, to change false narratives about women in intelligence. (Brittany Butler)
“Motivated by my mentors there, I applied to the CIA and was recruited as a CIA case officer within the Directorate of Operations,” she said.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the CIA for comment.
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After a series of interviews, standardized tests, psychological evaluations and polygraph exams, Butler said he became a targets officer in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, first in the Iraq division and then in the Afghanistan-Pakistan department.
“The pace of operations was intense and stressful,” she said. “As a mother of two young children, I found it difficult to maintain a healthy work-life balance.”
A former CIA agent shared how she dated while working for the government agency as an officer. (iStock/Brittany Butler)
After becoming a mother for the second time, Butler decided she didn't want her “children to suffer from having a mother who was always away,” so she left the CIA in 2014 to focus on her family. Today, she has three children.
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Butler is the author of “The Syndicate Spy: A Juliet Arroway Novel.” A mystery published last year. She told Fox News Digital that her goal is to “change false narratives about women in intelligence.”
He is also working on another book.
