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This week, to mark the United States' 250th birthday, we're looking at all the complicated
and surprising ways the United States has shaped the world.
There are the ways you can see and then there are the ways you cannot see.
And when it comes to the things you can't see, the Central Intelligence Agency is a big part of the story.
A lot of people say a lot of things about the CIA and some of them are a bit conspiratorial.
But now and again, you wonder, because sometimes even the CIA bosses say the quiet part out loud.