The Good Shepherd is a 2006 American spy film produced and directed by Robert De Niro, and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro, with an extensive supporting cast. It is a work of fiction, whose narrative is based on events in the life of James Jesus Angleton. Its advertising suggests it as capturing the tone of the birth of modern American counterintelligence, and of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).