This image was inspired by the news that the CIA had at long last declassified 700 pages of internal reports from the 1950s through the 1970s, documents they’d feared would be so damaging to the Agency’s reputation that they were known in house as the "family jewels." In 1992 a brief was filed under the Freedom of Information Act regarding these files, but the CIA managed to block their release for 15 years. Until this week, that is.

For me, this news hits home. After all, my father was a founder of the CIA in 1947, and then held an important post there in the 1960s until his retirement in 1971. The Director of the CIA, Richard Helms, attended Ed's and my wedding in 1966. I even had a job at the CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia one summer during my college years

And how do I now feel about the CIA? I think this image gives you a pretty good idea.