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Game of Thrones: CIA 'blows cover' of former deputy director who appeared in season 8
Former CIA deputy was spotted queuing for soup at Winterfell
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Your support makes all the difference.The CIA blew the cover of one of its former deputy directors after revealing he had a cameo in the latest episode of Game of Thrones.
David S Cohen made a brief appearance as an unnamed resident of Winterfell in season 8, episode 2 of the hit HBO series, where he was seen being served soup by Ser Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham).
The CIA revealed Cohen's cameo in a tweet that read: “Little birds, be on the lookout for a former deputy director of ours wandering through #Westeros in tonight’s episode of #GameOfThrones."
Cohen served as deputy director of the CIA under President Barack Obama from 2015 to 2017. He responded to the agency's tweet by joking that they had “blown his cover”.
However, he had already hinted about his forthcoming cameo in a tweet posted the week before.
“You seem to have good sources in Winterfell,” he wrote in response to Playboy's Washington correspondent, who was first to report the planned cameo.
In an interview with NBC, Cohen revealed that he asked his brother-in-law, who is a showrunner on the HBO show, if he could be an extra while they were celebrating Thanksgiving in 2017.
Game of Thrones season 8 continues each Sunday on HBO in the US. Viewers in the UK can watch on Sky or NowTV.
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