 Crile joined CBS News in 1976 to produce "The CIA's Secret Army", his trail-breaking documentary that chronicled the previously untold story of the CIA's secret wars against Castro after the Bay of Pigs Invasion.Historian Henry Steele Commager wrote that it would go down as one of the most important journalistic reports in U.S. American history.It was the first of a collection of broadcasts based on Crile's reporting, in which he took viewers into previously closed and inaccessible worlds.