Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.