Twitter was set ablaze this week as rumours emerged that Hollywood actor Sean Penn might be a CIA spy. The actor met with one of the world’s most wanted drug lords, El Chapo, in the jungle shortly before he was apprehended by the Mexican military. Dailymail.co.uk reports: Supposedly the entire ‘clandestine horror show’ – as Penn put it – was part of a research project to develop a Netflix-style drama about Guzmán and his prison break. Though Penn insists he went to extreme lengths to hide the meeting from authorities, the details have sparked widespread speculation that he was in fact tapped by the CIA to locate the fugitive criminal – just as screenwriters were enlisted to make Argo to free US hostages in Iran in 1979. El Chapo speaks: Sean Penn recounts his secret visit with the most wanted man in the world https://t.co/F4x6x8ANBd pic.twitter.com/8wDb2I6Xkt — Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 10, 2016 ‘Wait is Sean Penn a spy?’ asked one Twitter user. Another said: ‘Argo has a sequel starring Sean Penn and El Chapo Guzmán’. And many referenced the 1985 movie The Falcon And The Snowman, in which Penn plays a CIA informant. ‘Life imitating art,’ one Twitter user [...]