The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. Although it is a fictional film loosely based on real events of James Jesus Angleton, it is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of counterintelligence in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The film was released on December 22, 2006, to mixed reviews. It grossed $100 million against an estimated $80 million production budget. Plot In 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion ends disastrously. Senior CIA officer Edward Wilson is warned there are suspicions of a mole in his department. Returning home, he finds a photograph of a man and woman in bed, and audio tapes that have been tampered with, leaving certain details unclear. In 1939, while attending Yale, Edward is invited to join the Skull and Bones fraternity. During his initiation, he reveals there that he once discovered but never read the suicide note left by his father, Thomas. The father, an admiral served as Secretary of the Navy until his loyalties were questioned. FBI agent Sam Murach recruits Edward to investigate his poetry professor Frederick's ties as a Nazi sympathizer, which once exposed led to Fredericks' resignation. Edward begins dating a fellow Yale student named Laura, who is hearing impaired. After an announcement that World War II has begun, Laura asks Edward to sleep with her, but panics at the last moment.