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Films of the FBI Twelve O’Clock High, as Mark Grimsley noted in his insightful article (“The Moral World of Twelve O’Clock High,” March/ April 2014), is indeed used as a training tool by many, including the FBI. For years, and perhaps even today, the Bureau showed the movie to managers in classes devoted to the …
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