Thanks to former CIA agent Jeffery Scudder, here’s a rare glimpse into the CIA’s sense of bizarre humor. In an 1982 internal newsletter titled The Bestiary of Intelligence Writing, an unknown author and artist creatively penned and inked a list of cliches that CIA writers hated seeing in print. Via Matthew Gault at Medium.
You can read the redacted document here, via foi.cia.gov. Check out the Maurice Sendak-esque illustrations.
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The CIA’s bizarre, snarky political saitre. Artist and writer redacted and unknown.
The CIA Had a Sense of Humor Once. It Was called the Bestiary of Intelligence Writing. Thanks to former CIA agent Jeffery Scudder, here's a rare glimpse into the CIA's sense of bizarre humor.