So paranoid that the CIA didn't have to target Stone; movie critics did it instead. "True Lies" -- You don't have to be an agent to see that James Cameron's 1994 flick double-deals with logic.

The movie is based on the book Red Sparrow. Its author, Jason Matthews, is following the tried-and-true rule: Write what you know. Matthews is ex-CIA: He's a former station chief with 33 years in ...

The CIA on Friday said that a Hollywood movie portraying the hunt for Osama bin Laden “departs from reality” in significant ways, and emphasized that despite assistance it provided to the ...

But Mendez said Tenet told him that, "Every so often you need a fair audit." So Mendez is talking. Laconic about his heroics, he is loquacious about Iran, the CIA, movies and magic.

According to e-mails the CIA released under the Freedom of Information Act, Boal had extensive access to senior agency officials as he researched “Zero Dark Thirty.” ...

Producer and director Carl Colby always wanted to do a movie about his father, former CIA Director William Colby, but whenever the idea came about William never got onboard. "When he would come to ...

When the CIA needed a cover story to extract six Americans from Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, Tony Mendez devised a scheme that involved a crew scouting for a movie called "Argo ...

The movie also has Mendez and his family living in a Georgetown apartment. Mendez had been in the CIA for 15 years when dozens of Americans were taken hostage by Iranian Revolutionary Guards.