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Are These the Keystone Cops?
Macaray, David
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/are-these-the-keystone-cops/Date Written: 2016-03-18 Publisher: Counterpunch Year Published: 2016 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX19048 The CIA owes its vaunted reputation to one source: Hollywood’s movie studios. The way the movies portray America's clandestine services goes so far beyond mere "exaggeration" or embellishment, it verges on outright hero worship, stubbornly confusing James Woolsey with James Bond. Alas, if our intel-gathering networks were a fraction as accomplished as Hollywood portrays them to be, we wouldn’t have been mired in Vietnam or Iraq. Subject Headings |