Radar Magazine is reporting that CNN heartthrob Anderson Cooper hasn't been entirely forthcoming about all the life choices he was exploring in college. Hang on, we're talking about him maybe being a spy. What were you thinking?
Following his sophomore and junior years at Yale—a well-known recruiting ground for the CIA—Cooper spent his summers interning at the agency's monolithic headquarters in Langley, Virginia, in a program for students interested in intelligence work. His involvement with the agency ended there, and he chose not to pursue a job with the agency after graduation, according to a CNN spokeswoman, who confirmed details of Cooper's CIA involvement to Radar.
"Whatever summer jobs or internships our anchors had in college couldn't be less consequential," she added. He has kept the experience a secret, sources say, out of concern that, if widely known, it might compromise his ability to travel in foreign countries and even possibly put him at greater risk from terrorists.
There's undoubtedly gonna be a little chatter about whether he's still actually an undercover agent... so we might as well get some of that wildly speculative action for ourselves! What do you think? We're thinking maybe. Or is that just our mancrush talking?
(OK, turns out this is an article from 2006, so it's pretty old news. Sorry about that. Still: we had no idea, and since we're raging narcissists, we'll just assume you didn't either!)
[story via politicalinquirer.com; photo via libookperson's flickr photostream]