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Top 10 CIA Movies
Ever notice how movies almost always make the Central Intelligency the bad guy? Ridley Scott's new Body of Lies is no different. TIME looks back at some of the most memorable flicks starring the secretive organization.
Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd, at the height of their popularity, play two bumbling government employees unknowingly sent to the Soviet Union to act as decoys for actual spies. They're just everyday Joes fighting the war against Communism. And just because the pair of them are completely incompetent doesn't mean they don't have a part to play.
It's an aspirational movie really—you too can be a intelligence officer of questionable merit. Very contemporary. We call remake.
From the TIME archive, our 1985 review of Spies Like Us
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