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Dead Drop: August 3

DEAD DROP DDCIA UPDATE: We told you before that there was some speculation around what may have taken The White House so long to appoint a deputy to CIA Director Gina Haspel, after she was confirmed by the Senate back in May.  The hallway rumor was that there may have been a tug of war between the Agency and The White House over who to appoint, but alas,  a very well-placed source tells the Dead Drop that Vaughn Bishop was Director Haspel's choice 'all along' and that any delay in the public announcement of President Trump's intention to appoint him as DDCIA was due to Bishop making certain that he and his family were OK with him coming back.  Bishop retired in 2011 from the Agency, but has a kept a hand in what's happened since then.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY AT LANGELY: Actor John Krasinski, who will star in the forthcoming Amazon series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” reportedly visited CIA headquarters as he was preparing to play the CIA analyst, Ryan. Krasinski told Entertainment Weekly that he was “blown away” by how “apolitical” the place was.  He said what struck him was that “there was no politics being discussed, it was about objectives of protecting people and getting to the truth of the matter, which I thought was really interesting.” The other thing that caught his attention, he said was: “how perfectly and weirdly comfortingly normal everybody was.  It wasn’t one-thousand Arnold Schwarzenegger's out there fighting the world for us. It was really these people who, like Jack, have been in other jobs and just decided, ‘I want to do more for my country.’ It was an unbelievable place and I feel so lucky to be representing them.”

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