SpyTalk Archive: Entertainment
Couples, CIA-style
Robert Baer, whose CIA exploits and exasperations in the Middle East were immortalized in the 2005 George Clooney thriller "Syriana", has a new role: conjugal co-author. “The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story,” Baer’s fifth book, is his...
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Jeff Stein
| March 4, 2011; 4:21 PM ET |
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Entertainment, Foreign policy, Intelligence, Politics
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Syriana; The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story; See No Evil
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CIA gets spooky with new radio commercials
Let’s face it: If the CIA was hoping to recruit new cupcake cooks, the recruiting pitch would be all pastry and light But in its unique line of work, the CIA’s National Clandestine Service -- where the spies are --...
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Jeff Stein
| January 12, 2011; 6:52 PM ET |
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CIA's new top dog makes Christmas party debut
CIA Director Leon J. Panetta left the CIA’s holiday party Friday night with his latest new staffer: Bravo, his Irish Setter. "Bravo, an Irish Setter, is an important member of the Panetta family,” said an attendee who insisted on being...
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Jeff Stein
| December 5, 2010; 12:50 PM ET |
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Entertainment, Intelligence, Media
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Andrea Mitchell, Bill Burton, Charles E. Allen, James Meek, James Woolsey, John Brennan, Leon J. Panetta, Michael Hayden, Michael Sulick, Rep. Mike Rogers, Ronald Kessler; Catherine Herridge, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Stansfield Turner
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Legendary CIA agent Bob Ames to get full biography, 30 years after bombing death
Bob Ames is finally getting a book of his own. Washington author Kai Bird, co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of atomic scientist Robert Oppenheimer, is turning his sights on Ames, the legendary CIA operative who died in the 1983...
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Jeff Stein
| November 23, 2010; 3:45 PM ET |
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A subterfuge by a group of ex-spies?
All summer the Association of Former Intelligence Officers had advertised the big catch for its annual fall luncheon: Michael J. Morell, the new deputy director of the CIA. With so many major CIA issues in play -- Afghanistan and the...
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Jeff Stein
| September 24, 2010; 6:10 PM ET |
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Woodward dismisses CIA guard's dispute of Casey deathbed visit
Washington Post editor Bob Woodward ON Monday dismissed the allegation of a former CIA security officer that his famous account of interviewing CIA Director William Casey on his hospital deathbed was “fabricated.”
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Jeff Stein
| September 21, 2010; 8:57 AM ET |
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Entertainment, Intelligence
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Simon & Schuster
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