There is a particular kind of silence that surrounds the
Central Intelligence Agency. It is not the silence of absence. It is the
silence of an organization that has learned, over nearly eight decades, exactly
how much to say and exactly when to say nothing at all. The CIA does not run
press conferences the way the Pentagon does. It does not publish budgets the
way Congress does. Yet it touches almost every corner of global affairs, from
the jungles of Latin America to the mountains of Afg...
