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The CIA, skull and bones, and rewriting history: The Good Shepherd purportedly uncovers the "untold story of the birth of the CIA." It does show the incontestable Skull and Bones-CIA connection, but otherwise largely fails.
The Good Shepherd is a fictionalized version of history which is accurate in almost every incident. But because the filmmakers are liberated from trying to be faithful to the tiny details, they've come a lot closer in many ways to capturing some essential truths about this extraordinary period of intelligence, counterintelligence, betrayal and espionage during the Cold War....
There's no way to understand the present without understanding how we got there. And The Good Shepherd tells us.
--Richard C.A. Holbrooke Ambassador to the UN, 1999-2001
The Good Shepherd is described on its official website as "the untold story of the birth of the CIA." ...
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