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Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations
during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so
Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of
flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and
Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun
marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the
emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and
Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else:
disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's
narration as he closes in on the leak.