Editing Peter Falk (section)

===Early career===
He applied for a job with the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], but he was rejected because of his membership in the [[Marine Cooks and Stewards Union]] while serving in the Merchant Marine, even though he was required to join and was not active in the union (which had been under fire for communist leanings).{{Sfn | Falk | 2006 | p = 32}} He then became a management analyst with the Connecticut State Budget Bureau in [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]].<ref name= 'OfficialBio'>{{cite web | url= http://peterfalk.com/BIO.htm | title= Peter Falk Biography | access-date= January 30, 2009 | publisher= Peter Falk |  website= peterfalk.com | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090130141829/http://peterfalk.com/BIO.htm | archive-date= January 30, 2009 | df= mdy-all }}</ref> In 1997, Falk characterized his Hartford job as "efficiency expert": "I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work. Naturally, I was late, which I always was in those days, but ironically it was my tendency never to be on time that got me started as a professional actor."<ref name= 'Cigar' />