Films and TV Series
- In Three Days of the Condor, a low-level CIA employee codenamed Condor (Robert Redford) works in a small brownstone office reading books, magazines, etc., looking for enemy codes. He slips out to buy some food, and upon soon returning, finds that all his co-workers have been murdered. In his escape, he chances upon and abducts a woman (Faye Dunaway) for her car and to hide in her apartment. They then become friends, and with the killers still looking for Condor, they work together to find the truth of why his co-workers were killed, who ordered the killings, and who actually fulfilled the murder contracts.
- In The Hunt for Red October, Alec Baldwin plays CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
- In JFK, the CIA's connections to Anti-Castro Cuban freedom fighters, far right extremists, and the Mafia are portrayed, as well as the CIA's participation in President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the assassination's cover-up, and the CIA's attempted sabotage of the prosecution by Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) of former CIA domestic contact agent Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee Jones) for his part in the conspiracy behind the assassination.
- In Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, Harrison Ford plays CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
- In In the Line of Fire, Clint Eastwood plays a U.S. Secret Service agent haunted by his inactivity in Dealey Plaza during President Kennedy's assassination, which he views as his greatest failure. A former CIA assassin (John Malkovich), to "help" redeem Eastwood's career, informs Eastwood that Malkovich is going to kill the current president, so, Eastwood and the Secret Service methodically work to track down the assassin and stop him.
- In Nixon, Anthony Hopkins is shown nurturing, threatening, and paying off the CIA as he attempts to salvage his presidency.
- In Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise fights to salvage his CIA career after being compromised by his mentor.
- In Ronin, Robert De Niro is a former CIA officer.
- In Spy Game, Brad Pitt is trained by Robert Redford but eventually goes rogue and is captured when he attempts to rescue the one he loves as Redford plots a daring sub-rogue rescue mission on the last day of his career.
- In The Sum of All Fears, Ben Affleck plays CIA analyst Jack Ryan.
- In Bad Company, Chris Rock plays an undercover CIA officer who is buying a bomb from Russian terrorists.
- In The Recruit, Al Pacino plays a CIA training officer who recruits a young Colin Farrell.
- In Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the sequel to Desperado, Johnny Depp plays CIA officer Sheldon Jeffrey Sands, who is manipulating events in Mexico.
- In Body of Lies, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a CIA case officer in Iraq, tracking a terrorist called Al-Saleem.
- In Taken, Liam Neeson plays a former CIA operative whose daughter is kidnapped in France.
- In Law Abiding Citizen, antagonist Clyde Shelton used to work for the CIA, specializing in covert assassination methods.
- In Salt, Angelina Jolie plays a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent.
- In the Bourne film series, Matt Damon plays a former CIA SAD paramilitary officer whom the CIA wishes to terminate for disobeying orders to assassinate a political figure.
- In Safe House, Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds play CIA operatives...
- In RED, Bruce Willis and Karl Urban play CIA operatives...
- In Prince of Malacca, a film to be directed by Chandran Rutnam, a Wall Street billionaire hedge fund manager, after seeking nadi astrology in India, gets into a double deal by becoming a CIA intelligence officer with a special directive from the President of the United States to detect a drug cartel in Southeast Asia, in exchange for using space and satellite technology to locate an island in the Strait of Malacca where in a tribal community his lover of previous birth is born as a beautiful dancer.
- In Alias, Sydney Bristow first works for what she believes to be a black ops division of the CIA, which turns out to be an enemy organization; she subsequently becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
- In Burn Notice, Jeffrey Donovan plays a spy that was burned and tries to figure out who burned him and much of the plot and characters have links with the CIA.
- In Chuck, Sarah Walker is an CIA operative working with the NSA to protect and gain intelligence from the title character. The series also has other CIA officers, notably Bryce Larkin, as well as a splinter or rogue element within the CIA's ranks, called Fulcrum.
- In Covert Affairs, Piper Perabo plays a CIA trainee suddenly promoted to a field operative in order to help capture her ex-boyfriend.
- In Torchwood: Miracle Day, Mekhi Phifer plays CIA officer Rex Matheson who is investigating the eponymous Torchwood Institute. Alexa Havins also stars as CIA watch analyst Esther Drummond, whilst Dichen Lachman has been cast as a CIA officer.
- In Homeland, Claire Danes plays Carrie Mathison, a CIA Covert Operations Officer on the trail of a U.S. Marine suspected of being turned a terrorist after being captured and held by extremists for eight years.
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