As documentarian Chris Whipple observes, the CIA is the most secretive fraternity on earth. Among the 23 men who have occupied the rarefied office of the Director of Central Intelligence—itself the setting for some of the most dramatic intelligence decisions in modern history—only twelve of them are still alive today. Once a year, Whipple reports, these servicemen gather privately at Langley for “a briefing on the state of the world,” and to reaffirm a covenant forged in the trenches of one of the most difficult jobs on earth.
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