AT the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia – beyond the handsome granite seal on its lobby floor and a wall of stars carved in honour of the agency’s fallen – experts are at work in the complex tasks of spycraft: weapons-trained officers, computer engineers, virologists, nuclear scientists.
But there are also storytellers, makeup artists, theatre majors and ballerinas – Americans who probably never thought their skills would match the needs of a spy agency. Yet the CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, thought otherwise.
