Overall the CIA inspector general and concluded that every single one of the officers it interviewed ‘accepted gifts, to include meals, from Bigelow and/or Boal’.Įven former CIA director Leon Panetta may have disclosed classified information he was not supposed to. The documents show that the inspector general was concerned about Bigelow and Boal buying the CIA agent who tracked down Osama bin Laden some pearl earrings and taking her on an eight hour shopping trip with a stop at a Prada store. In the end the allegations were left with the CIA, which did nothing. It referred the matter to the US Department of Justice but it refused to prosecute. Newly released documents show that the CIA inspector general identified several possible violations of federal criminal law by Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. The makers of Zero Dark Thirty were nearly prosecuted for bribing CIA officials with gifts in exchange for information whilst researching the Oscar-winning film. Gifts for information: Kathryn Bigelow (pictured) and Mark Boal are said to have given one agent pearl earrings, and taken her on an eight hour shopping spree - including a stop in Prada
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