Likely
Both words in one sentence
- Presumably, the low-status killers he surrounded himself with are fellow scholarshitp boys, either out of fellow-feeling or, more likely, because he didn't like the "proper" assassins very much.
Source: Fanon / Literature - How much this counts is dubious though, considering the group in question were likely cut off from contact with the CIA proper and acting on their own initiative like everybody else.
Source: CIA Evil, FBI Good - Similar to the above, British English nearly always uses the article when using proper nouns; for instance, someone saying "in Commons" (as opposed to "in the Commons" or most likely "in the House of Commons") would sound weird.
Source: Useful Notes / British English
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