Source: Wikimedia Commons Over a decade after 9/11, Americans are still eager to see anti-U.S. forces outsmarted by America’s finest at the Central Intelligence Agency. Just last year, films like Argo flourished at both the box office and the Oscars, while the Showtime series Homeland became one of the year’s best-reviewed television shows. But where did they film scenes that take place at the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia? Surely, the agency that’s supposedly shrouded in secrecy and unspeakable importance wouldn’t let creatives into its walls so easily? Argo, last year’s winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, was filmed primarily in Los Angeles. Scenes of the CIA Headquarters were mostly filmed in the Los Angeles Times building. (Somewhat ironically, the LA Times wrote a piece rounding up Argo‘s filming locations, nonchalantly mentioning their own contribution.) Admittedly, the office space did look awfully… low-tech. Then again, the film takes place in the ’70s, so the production design… Read More