While monitoring Soviet activity in Central America, Edward receives an agent’s severed finger, after the CIA unleashed locusts on a Soviet-fronted coffee company. While Edward feels genuine affection for his son, Margaret grows increasingly disenchanted as he continually prioritizes work over family. Edward is again approached by General Sullivan, this time to help create the CIA with colleague Richard Hayes, with Phillip Allen as director. In 1946, Edward returns home to a distant Clover, who now goes by her birth name Margaret they both admit to having had affairs, and she reveals that John was killed in the war. Edward impulsively sleeps with his office's interpreter Hanna Schiller, but discovers she is a Soviet operative, leading to her murder. inadvertently reveals that Clover is having an affair. In post-war Berlin, Edward collaborates with Soviet counterpart "Ulysses" in the exchange of captured scientists. Fredericks refuses to retire quietly and is killed. Special Operations Executive officer Arch Cummings informs Edward that Fredericks' indiscreet liaisons pose a security risk. Fredericks, in reality a British intelligence operative who had recommended Edward for counter-espionage training. On Edward and Clover's wedding day, he is presented with orders to leave for London. While on a date with Laura at the beach, Edward is approached by John, who tells him Clover is pregnant and insinuates that Edward is obligated to marry her. Clover, whose father is a Senator and head of the isolationist America First Committee, is attracted to Edward and he eventually succumbs to her advances. He is also introduced to General Bill Sullivan, who tells him the US will soon be compelled to enter the war and offers Edward a job in foreign intelligence. In 1940, Edward attends a party and meets Margaret “Clover” Russell, sister of fellow Bonesman John. After an announcement that World War II has begun, Laura asks Edward to sleep with her, but panics at the last moment. Edward begins dating a fellow Yale student named Laura, who is hearing impaired. FBI agent Sam Murach recruits Edward to investigate his poetry professor Frederick's ties as a Nazi sympathizer, which once exposed led to Fredericks' resignation. During his initiation, he reveals there that he once discovered but never read the suicide note left by his father, Thomas, an admiral who served as Secretary of the Navy until his loyalties were questioned. In 1939, while attending Yale, Edward is invited to join the Skull and Bones fraternity. Returning home, he finds a photograph of a man and woman in bed, and audio tapes that have been tampered with, leaving certain details unclear. Senior CIA officer Edward Wilson is warned there are suspicions of a mole in his department. In 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion ends disastrously. It grossed $100 million against an estimated $80 million production budget. The film was released on December 22, 2006, to mixed reviews. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events of James Jesus Angleton, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counterintelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast.
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