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The Best Fictional CIA Agents

Updated June 27, 2019 404 votes 52 voters 1.3k views32 items

America's Central Intelligence Agency - and the people who work for it - are the perfect heroes for movies and TV shows. The greatest CIA characters are usually highly-trained, highly-lethal masters of subterfuge who are tasked with protecting American interests abroad. CIA characters are usually put in impossible situations where failure not only means death but also a total disavowment by their own government.

It's all intriguing stuff, and some of the greatest action films of all time have centered around the actions of CIA operatives or other other shadowy organizations working alongside the CIA. That's how we get the Mission Impossible's IMF and Jason Bourne's Operation Treadstone. But who would win in an ultimate showdown of deception and hand-to-hand combat? Who among all the greatest CIA agents of all time comes out on top?

Your mission - should you choose to accept it - is to vote up America's greatest CIA agents. Is there somebody we missed (probably because they're so good at hiding)? If so, add them to the list!

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Nathan D. Muir
Spy Game
Played By: Robert Redford
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Jason Bourne
The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Identity
Played By: Matt Damon
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Tom Bishop
Spy Game
Played By: Brad Pitt
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Ethan Hunt
Mission: Impossible film series
Played By: Tom Cruise
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Chuck Bartowski
Chuck, Chuck Universe
Played By: Zachary Levi
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Michael Westen
Burn Notice, Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Played By: Jeffrey Donovan
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Matt Graver
Sicario
Played By: Josh Brolin
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John Reese
Person of Interest
Played By: Jim Caviezel
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James Douglas Clayton
The Recruit
Played By: Colin Farrell
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Matt Weston
Safe House
Played By: Ryan Reynolds
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Bryan Mills
Taken, Taken 2
Played By: Liam Neeson
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Evelyn Salt
Salt 2, Salt
Played By: Angelina Jolie
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Peter Quinn
Homeland
Played By: Rupert Friend

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Roger Ferris
Body of Lies
Played By: Leonardo DiCaprio
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Joseph Turner
Three Days of the Condor
Played By: Robert Redford
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Carrie Mathison
Homeland
Played By: Claire Danes
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Creasy
Man on Fire
Played By: Scott Glenn
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Alan Hunley
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Played By: Alec Baldwin
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Felix Leiter
Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever
Played By: Jeffrey Wright, David Hedison, Cec Linder, John Terry, Rik Van Nutter
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Jake Hayes
Bad Company
Played By: Chris Rock
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Dillon
Predator
Played By: Carl Weathers, Sam Shepard
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Luther Stickell
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible III
Played By: Ving Rhames
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Annie Walker
Covert Affairs
Played By: Piper Perabo