Anderson Cooper, CNN's most prominent anchor, spent two summers interning at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, recruited through a Yale University career office flyer. Cooper himself confirmed this in a 2006 CNN article. While he says the work was 'bureaucratic and mundane' and he didn't pursue an intelligence career, the fact that a top American news anchor has CIA training raises questions about the revolving door between intelligence agencies and mainstream media — a pattern documented since Operation Mockingbird.