Total lies and slander against the CIA and its agents

Rating: 2/10 (25 October 2007)

Aside from being an unbelievably slow and boring movie, I was struck by its typical Hollywood biases. Left wing, yes, but also the oh-so-trite "US government is bad" bias. How sad that such an interesting character as Angleton is wasted on this CIA slam.
Then I watched the following video, The Good Shepherd vs. Real CIA History: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=716073004&channel=240043692
You be the judge as to whether the speaker is some right-wing zealot or a protector of the truth.
I have long bemoaned that Hollywood films unnecessarily play fast and loose with the facts. It bothers me that films like this, or JFK, may be the only "history" some people learn about real events.
The CIA has sure made its mistakes over the years, as we all have. But I feel that it is generally filled with patriots trying to defend the USA. Of course no filmmakers are willing to even try to be fair and balanced with such material.
Do yourself a favor and skip The Bad Shepherd and go read some real history on Angleton.