
The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States; near Washington, D.C.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and performing covert actions.
As a principal member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the
CIA reports to the Director of National Intelligence and is primarily focused on
providing intelligence for the President and Cabinet of the United States. President
Harry S. Truman had created the Central Intelligence Group under the direction of a
Director of Central Intelligence by presidential directive on January 22, 1946, and
this group was transformed into the Central Intelligence Agency by implementation of
the National Security Act of 1947.
The agency has been the subject of many controversies, including human rights violations, domestic wiretapping and propaganda, and allegations of drug trafficking. It has also appeared in works of fiction, including books, films and video games.
In American culture, the words "rogue CIA mission" call to mind squads of agents ready to take out targets, run guns, and rig elections—often for agenda too unsavory to be made public.
But even if rogue agents were amoral, at least they were thought to be capable. Here are two exciting movies about CIA agents gone rouge.