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FOCUS | Seymour Hersh: The CIA Is Filled With Criminals 
CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (photo: Guardian UK) 
Elon Green, Columbia Journalism Review 
Green writes: "When a reporter has covered 50 years of American foreign policy disasters, the last great untold story may be his own." 
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