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america's professional secret-keeper, paid to know things and deny knowing them.
means the U.S. federal agency that gathers foreign intelligence and runs covert operations abroad.
from born 1947 from the National Security Act, replacing the WWII-era OSS after leaders realized Pearl Harbor happened partly because nobody was talking to anybody.
headquarters nicknamelangley, technically its own zip code
legal limitbarred from domestic spying, in theory
famous flopbay of pigs, still studied as how-not-to
budget secrecytotal spending classified, hidden in other agencies