Explain how it is not possible, if not likely, that an East Coast Elite college kid, after becoming a cia intern, is invited to stay on as a 'plainclothes' agent.
Because that's not how it works. Because it is illegal for the CIA to conduct operations within CONUS. Because there is no such thing as CIA "Agents" (CIA operatives are called "Officers". This is how you spot people who don't do their homework).
Nothing in Cooper's post college career suggests CIA, plus you couldn't be a homosexual and hold a security clearance until 1995.
It is no secret that the CIA and other government agenies will reach out to journalists, newspaper editors, and media heads to ask for help with influence.
We know that Julia Childs and a few A-list hollywood actors were recruited by US intelligence. Those are just the ones we know of.
No, Julia Childs worked for the OSS, not the CIA. She volunteered to SERVE HER COUNTRY in WWII by working at OSS because she was too tall to serve in the military (she was 6'2"). This is where she met her husband, Paul Childs, who was (GASP!) also an OSS Officer.
Smart people can read about her work here:
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-cooking-up-spy-ops-for-oss/
Child's most nefarious contribution for the OSS was Shark Repellent:
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/julia-child-and-the-oss-recipe-for-shark-repellent/
Sterling Hayden, the guy who played General Jack D Ripper in Dr. Stangelove, was OSS and kind of a badass. Also a badass, Christopher Lee, although not CIA but British, worked for black ops.
What's your point?
Why aren't you more concerned with the KGB/FSA's possible influences in western media post WWII?
Elites and celebrities are more useful in many ways...access to higher levels where info can be gathered. I do not believe this needs explaining.
No, they are really not.
Useful people are those who are working in agencies, businesses, government offices, and industrial corporations who manufacture and maintain the apparatus supporting national security of our adversaries. That's is coincidentally who the CIA and every other intelligence service in the world targets.
I cannot believe you dont get it, so I can only think that you are intentionally being obtuse.
Sort of like a fish not being able to breathe air, we can't lower our IQs that far.