Why Would The CIA Kill....

Why would the CIA (rogue or otherwise) sloppily kill everyone in a research reading house that the CIA controls?

The hit men used sub-machine guns and made a huge mess of the bodies and the house.

I know it was because Turner (Robert Redford) was close to uncovering the middle east oil field scenario, however it makes more sense to gather the personnel in the house and find out to whom they have discussed the CIA secret plan.

If Turner had not survived and called in to headquarters, resulting in a cleanup of the house, the dead bodies may have been found and investigated by the NYPD and the national news.

Watergate did not have a 7 dead mass killing and look at how out uncontrollable that was for the government agencies. Even President Nixon could not keep that quiet.

I still like the movie. I would just like for the killings to be better handled. Such as, Joubert went to take them hostage and to a different place and things spiraled out of control and he had to shoot the readers and the staff.

Bloodbaths in movies okay if they are better contrived than this one. Geesh Joubert did not even close and lock the front door when the killers left the scene. That's how Condor got back into the house with lunch.

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