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Introduction: Covert Affairs is a fast paced and entertaining spy drama from USA Network. The show revolves around Annie Walker, a beautiful young CIA trainee fluent in six languages. Agent Walker is abruptly plucked from the Academy and promoted to field operative. She assumes that it is her extraordinary linguistic skills that have attracted the Agency’s attention, but it just might be someone from her past that they’re really after. Assigned to the Domestic Protection Division, Agent Walker is guided through the world of international espionage and Agency internal politics by Auggie Anderson, a brilliant and blind former special operations officer. 2. About the show: Covert Affairs is an Emmy Award winning spy drama series on USA Networks, brought to you by the creators of the Bourne trilogy and Burn Notice. Annie Walker, a young CIA operative in training is mysteriously plucked straight out of the Academy in Langley, Virginia and placed in the super-secret Domestic Protection Division (DPD) in Washington, DC. Her sudden promotion is presumably due to her extraordinary linguistic skills, but it soon becomes apparent that the Agency’s interest is motivated by something or someone else. She is given a cover story (a desk job at the Smithsonian), and a …show more content…

She is Annie’s first boss at the Division and sees more than a little of herself in the talented young agent. Joan’s marriage to Arthur Campbell, a fellow CIA administrator has not been as successful as her career at the Agency. Arthur Campbell, starts the series as the cunning Director of Clandestine Services and Joan’s boss. The couple’s relationship is a rocky one as they attempt to balance their personal and professional work lives as husband, wife, parents, and colleagues, while navigating the web of secrets and lies that permeates their

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