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The boys next door.(new show may do for the CIA what 'The West Wing' did for the White House)

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From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20010701
Author:Lapham, Lewis H.

But that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead.

--Christopher Marlowe

Just as NBC during the last years of the Clinton Administration refurbished the morally threadbare White House with the comforts of The West Wing, CBS next autumn will present The Agency, a prime-time dramatic series intended to repair and improve the public understanding of the CIA. The producers set themselves an ambitious task. The Agency's reputation for chronic stupidity and criminal incompetence is long established and well deserved. Taken unawares by the outbreak of the Korean ...

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