Oscar Wilde said: "Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Fyodor Dostoevsky (wasn't he a Russian too?) said: "At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art. Then life will find its very existence from the arts."
Now it seems we have come full circle: life, then art, then life. But, if you think about it, it makes sense: Why would the CIA want to waste that valuable experience? Once you learn how to do it right, you keep doing it, right?