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* ''[[The President's Analyst]]'' from 1967 inverts this trope - the renamed Central Enquiries Agency is a diverse bunch of good-natured college-educated types sympathetic to the hero, while the Federal Board of Regulation are all humorless little men in black who never question orders from their grim, opinion-driven little chief to kill the hero {{spoiler|although the former won't hesitate, as a last resort, to kill him either}}.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': Inverted due to Michael being ex-CIA (maybe), whereas the FBI are depicted as annoying bureaucratic buffoons (at best) and as corrupt sell-outs at worst.
**[[Your Mileage May Vary|Perhaps more]] played with. The FBI does keep an eye on Michael but if you were the FBI and were told that a guy lives in Miami who is suspected of unsanctioned operations and consorts with known criminals, you would keep an eye too. On the other hand when on one episode Michael discovers a war-criminal in hiding he flags him to his "watchers" who are quite eager to catch him or at least frighten him into going within his home country's grasp. Likewise the CIA has both good and evil representatives.
== FBI versus CIA examples ==
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