It's small club and we ain't in it. Pretty much everyone who gets famous in media has some sort of connection to the "deep state"/CIA simply because media is full of nepotism and rich kids who can get their stuff out there. Menaker's grandpa was a double agent for the KGB and FBI. Felix's "neocon uncle" that he has alluded to was literally law partners with Paul Helliwell, Disney's CIA guy and iirc has connections to the Pritzkers.