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The world's most famous spy service, the Central Intelligence Agency, is nearing its 60th birthday. But are its six decades of skulduggery a thriller, a tragedy or a farce? Accused of kidnapping, brutalizing and handing over terrorism suspects to torture-friendly countries, the agency is as beleaguered now as it was in the days of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Dumping 25 years of dirty laundry on the public's doorstep last month in the form of massive declassified files has only stirred the controversy about a shadowy organization that so many people love to hate
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