Making Fun of Spies: Former CIA Officer and Satirist Alex Finley
Intelligence Matters
Is There Anything That Cannot Be Made Fun Of?
The agency provides lots of material for satire rit everything from polygraphs and, you know, financial disclosure forms when the vast majority of people don't have any money rite to burn bags. There is a great sense of humour among agence people because we are not james bond or jason born. And so this miscultural, eennon ha, sort of popular cultural understanding of what we do was so completely contrary into what our no daily, everyday lives were like. Alexa: "There is absolutely nothing that cannot be made fun of"
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