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THE CIA’S INVOLVEMENT WITH US FILM-MAKING
Everyone who watches drive-in theatre knows about Hollywood’s mindfulness with spies . From Hitchcock’s postwar spying thrillers, by cold fight tales such as Torn Curtain, in to a overly suspicious 1970s when a CIA came to be seen as an group out of carry out in drive-in theatre such as Three Days of a Condor, as well as right to a benefaction, with a Bourne trilogy as well as Ridley Scott’s stirring Physique of Lies, film-makers have continually longed for to get in bed with spies . What’s reduction during large well known is how most a spies have longed for to get in bed with a film-makers . In actuality, a story of a CIA’s impasse in Hollywood is a story of dishonesty as well as overpower that would appear extraordinary if it were put upon screen.
The indication for this is a counterclaim department’s “open” nonetheless hardly publicised attribute with Hollywood . A Pentagon, for decades, has charity film-makers recommendation, manpower as well as even hardware - together with aircraft carriers as well as state-of-the-art helicopters . All it asks for in sell is that a US armed forces have been finished to demeanour great . So in a prior Scott film, Black Hawk Down, a impression formed upon a real-life infantryman who had additionally been a kid assailant mislaid that partial of his backstory when he came to a screen. No make a difference how clearly weakling Hollywood’s poise towards a US armed forces has seemed, it has during slightest happened inside of a open domain . That cannot be pronounced for a CIA’s exchange with a film commercial operation . Not until 1996 did a CIA make known, with small pushing, that it had determined an Entertainment Liaison Bureau, that would combine in a particularly advisory genius with film-makers . Heading up a bureau was Chase Brandon, who had served for twenty-five years in a agency’s chosen surreptitious services multiplication, as an clandestine operations military officer . A PR male he isn’t, nonetheless he does have Hollywood connections: he’s a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones. But a past twelve years of semi-acknowledged partnership were preceded by decades in that a CIA confirmed a habitual nonetheless invisible shift of Hollywood . How could it be differently ? As a former CIA male Bob Baer - whose books upon his time with a group were a basement for Syriana - told us: “All these people that run studios - they go to Washington, they cling to around with senators, they cling to around with CIA directors, as well as everybody’s upon board.” There is documentary justification for his claims . Luigi Luraschi was a conduct of unfamiliar as well as made during home censorship for Paramount in a early 1950s . As well as, it was not prolonged ago detected, he was additionally user for a CIA, promulgation in reports about how film censorship was being in make use of to progress a picture of a US in cinema that would be seen abroad . Luraschi’s reports additionally suggested that he had swayed multiform film-makers to plant “negroes” who were “well-dressed” in their cinema, to opposite Soviet promotion about bad competition family in a States . A Soviet chronicle was rsther than nearer a truth. Luraschi’s activities were merely a tip of a iceberg . Graham Greene, for e.g., disowned a 1958 adapatation of his Vietnam-set novel A Quiet American, describing it as a “propaganda film for America” . In a pretension purpose, Audie Murphy played not Greene’s dangerously obscure figure - whose idea in a probity of American unfamiliar process allows him to omit a abominable consequences of his actions - nonetheless a elementary favourite . A asocial British publisher, played by Michael Redgrave, is instead a male whose dignified compass has left really bad . Greene’s American had been formed in partial upon a mythological CIA user in Vietnam, Colonel Edward Lansdale . How good, afterwards, that it should have been Lansdale who swayed executive Joseph Mankewiecz to shift a book to fit his own ends. The CIA didn’t usually suggest superintendence to film-makers, however . It even charity income . In 1950, a group paid for a rights to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as afterwards saved a 1954 British charcterised chronicle of a film . A impasse had prolonged been rumoured, nonetheless usually in a past decade have those rumours been substantiated, as well as a story of a CIA’s purpose told in Daniel Leab’s book Orwell Subverted. The most usual approach for a CIA to strive shift in Hollywood today is not by anything as approach as appropriation, or rewriting scripts, nonetheless charity to assistance with counts of expectation . That is finished by carrying portion or former CIA agents behaving as advisers upon a film, nonetheless a little competence consternation either there is ever unequivocally such a thing a “former agent” . As ex-CIA deputy Lindsay Moran, a writer of Blowing My Cover, has remarkable, a CIA mostly calls upon former officers to perform tasks for their aged employer. So it was no complaint for CBS to secure central assistance when creation a 2001 TV array A Group( it was even created by a former deputy) . Langley was similarly beneficial to a writer Tom Clancy, who was invited to CIA domicile after a announcement of A Hunt for Red Oct, an call in that was continually steady . Consequently, when Clancy’s A Sum of All Fears was filmed in 2002, a group was happy to move a makers to Langley for a personal debate of domicile, as well as to suggest entrance to group analysts for star Ben Affleck . When filming began, Brandon was upon set to suggest - a purpose he steady during a filming of glamorous radio array Alias. The former deputy Milt Beardon took a advisory purpose upon dual reduction action-packed attempts during spying stories: Robert De Niro’s A Great Shepherd from 2006, that told an estimate chronicle of a story of a famous CIA conduct of counter-espionage, James Jesus Angleton; as well as Charlie Wilson’s Fight, a story of US growth efforts to supply a Afghan mujahideen with weaponry during a Soviet function of a 80s . In being, this was a story that finished really bad, as a Afghan leisure fighters helped give bieing born to a terrorists of al-Qaida . In a film, however, that was not a box . As Beardon - who had been a CIA male obliged for a weapons reaching a Afghans - celebrated prior to prolonged prior to a film came out, a film would “put in reserve a idea that since you did that[ supply arms], you had 9/11″. Beardon’s acknowledgement provides a idea to a genuine reason a CIA likes to suggest recommendation to Hollywood, a idea that was stretched upon by Paul Kelbaugh, a former join forces with ubiquitous warn to a CIA - a really comparison figure in Langley . In 2007, Kelbaugh spoke during Lynchburg College of Law in Virginia - where he had turn an join forces with highbrow - about a CIA’s attribute with Hollywood . A publisher benefaction during a harangue( who right away wishes to be unknown) reported that Kelbaugh spoke about a 2003 Al Pacino/Colin Farrell automobile A Recruit . A CIA deputy had been upon set as a “consultant” via a glow, he said; his genuine pursuit, however, was to mislead a film-makers . “We didn’t wish Hollywood removing as well tighten to a law, ” a publisher quoted Kelbaugh as saying. Peculiarly, nonetheless, in a strongly worded email to us, Kelbaugh emphatically denied carrying pronounced such a thing, as well as pronounced he remembered “very specific discussions with comparison[ CIA] government that no a single was ever to falsify to start[ film] calm - EVER.” A publisher stands by a strange inform, as well as Kelbaugh has refused to plead a make a difference further. So, altering scripts, financing drive-in theatre, suppressing a law - it’s worrying sufficient . Nonetheless there have been cases where a little hold a CIA’s activities in Hollywood have left serve - distant sufficient, in actuality, to be a things of cinema . In Jun 1997, a screenwriter Gary DeVore was user upon a screenplay for his directorial entrance . It was to be an movement film set opposite a backdrop of a US advance of Panama in 1989, that led to a overpower of tyrant Manuel Noriega . According to his mother, Wendy, DeVore had been articulate to an aged crony - a CIA’s Chase Brandon - about Noriega’s system of administration as well as US counternarcotic programmes in Latin America . Wendy told CNN: “He had been really uneasy over a little of a things that he had been anticipating in his investigate . He was researching a United States advance of Panama, since he was environment a tangible story that he was essay opposite this; as well as a overpower of Noriega as well as a huge amounts of income laundering in a Panamanian banks, additionally a own government’s income laundering.” At a finish of that month, DeVore had been in Santa Fe, New Mexico, user upon an additional plan . He was travelling behind to California when, during 1.15am upon Jun twenty-eight, he called Wendy, a call she says has been excised from phone annals . She told CNN she was “terribly alarmed” since he was vocalization as nonetheless he were underneath compulsion . She was certain “someone was in a automobile with him” . That was a final time Wendy DeVore listened from her husband. A year upheld, nonetheless a box refused to die as well as conjecture mounted . Even a Los Angeles Times began considering CIA impasse . DeVore was reputed passed, nonetheless there was no physique, as well as no finish to a questions . Lo as well as view, usually 9 days after a LA Times reported a box, DeVore’s physique was found, decomposing in his Ford Explorer, in twelve feet of H2O in a California Aqueduct next a Antelope Valley Freeway, south of Palmdale - a city located in “aerospace valley”, so dubbed by locals for a repute as a US military-industrial-complex building - fuel to a glow for swindling theorists. The coroner went upon to acknowledgement a means as well as demeanour of DeVore’s genocide to be “unknown”, nonetheless military in a future reached a indeterminate end that a screenwriter’s genocide was an accident: he had depressed defunct during a circle, they pronounced, prior to careening off a main road as well as in to a H2O, where he drowned . Nonetheless lax ends remain: DeVore’s laptop mechanism containing his unprepared book was blank from his automobile, as was a gun he entirely carried upon prolonged trips; after his disappearance, a CIA deputy allegedly showed up during DeVore’s residence to ask entrance to his computer; Hollywood in isolation questioner Don Crutchfield remarkable that prior drafts of DeVore’s book were inexplicably wiped from pronounced mechanism during a same timeframe; military claimed that DeVore’s automobile careened off a main road, nonetheless DeVore’s widow was uneasy by a deficiency of manifest repairs to a guardrail during a stage of a purported accident; as well as how come no a single beheld an SUV sitting in a H2O underneath a bustling main road for a total year ? Perhaps a total situation is as well similar to a swindling film to be a genuine swindling - nonetheless most sojourn uneasy by De Vore’s death. Despite a CIA’s avowed enterprise to be some-more open about a purpose it plays in Holly-wood, it’s tough to take a newfound clarity as well severely . After all, what make use of is a growth group that does not action stealthily, even if a little of a activities have been open ? As well as if it is still not open about a law of events decades ago, most of that have spilled in to a open domain accidently, how can you be certain it is revelation a law about a activities right away ? A view might have come in from a cold, nonetheless he still finds preserve in a dim of a cinema. 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This is a wicked find, here.Remember when Oliver Stone made that ultra-lame 9/11 movie? Maybe he was under some kind of duress to do so. You would think from his other work that the guy would be the first to make a film of the “conspiracy theory” version of the events.My other thought here is that the quickest way to end wars is for soldiers to just stop signing up, which they would if the “support the troops” mantra was not so pervasive in society. You can see where the CIA would have a reason to try and instill this thinking in the public psyche.
No, that would start a draft…..
Also the MGIB and Veteran Scholarships is why I joined. I couldn’t give 2 ***** about supporting the troops when I signed.
appealing to patriotism is how they hook the first batch of suckers.appealing to self-interest in how they mop up the rest.
People join up for different reasons Asianwaste. Hopefully you do care about the folks you have to work with enough to keep them alive. That being said, depending on the job, the military, more specifically, the Air Force, is a hell of a way to get damn good experience, good money for college, and pretty much a guaranteed job after getting out.I’d sign up again in a heart beat.
You know, I had a friend who signed up for that reason. He wound up having to drop out a year before his contract went out (7th out of 8 years) because his parents passed away. They didn’t pay for anything, even though he got an honorable discharge.
smartass007Bottom line: It’s a volunteer system, and now I am reaping the rewards.NicoNicoNicoDid he pay the $100 / month? Parents passing away? He either got a psyche discharge or other than honorable. Otherwise it’s not a ticket out.
1C751I cared enough to make friends, do my part, and ensure the well-being of the person next to me. I never dodged my duties and rose rank pretty fast because I worked hard. Outside of that however, I don’t care enough to re-enlist or join the reserves for my county’s sake or because I care about world events. I had needs and my government had needs, we mutually benefit each other. You can’t establish a better relationship with your government than that.
except the ones at the top actually believe their own *****. consider people like gov. palin and vp-elect biden who both have sons in iraq.
License for conspiracy theories…
Hollywood, a thin switch of holly, a wizards wand to change reality is where the name originated. the CIA is also thick in mainstream propaganda “news”. historian Jordan Maxwell had a lot of very educational things to say about these devils and their symbols.
Uh, no.”Hollywood” actually comes from “Hollywoodland”, which was the name of a small real estate project just below what is now the “Hollywood” sign. The sign was originally a huge billboard for that real estate development.. but after years of neglect, the last four letters were lost to a landslide, leaving only “Hollywood”.
Oh yeah? You’re a towel!
No, you are a towel.
No, you sir are indeed a towel.
of’course, hollywood films have been used as propaganda from god knows when. During the cold war it was the soviets who were shown as blood-hungry, grandma beating villains!..and guess what who are the villains today, Arabs!
at least they have gotten better about masking their propaganda since “Invaders From Mars”that movie sucked.
but…what will we think and do without subliminal commands from our mass culture overlords?
RED DAWN was awesome.
I figure if you think anything in a movie is worth using as your image of a counter-part in the real world, you could have been recruited with basic super-liminal messaging.HEY YOU, GO JOIN THE ARMY.
Yvan eht nioj
The CIA is a criminal organization. Idiots think they are “protecting us” and that we just “can’t handle the truth.” The truth is that their criminal actions have only endangered americans.
That’s absolutely ridiculous, many Americans CAN’T handle the truth… do I have to remind you how many people still voted for McCain. If we knew everything, most of these paranoid idiots would destroy this country, you can’t honestly think they do NOTHING to protect us…Not saying they don’t have some shady dealings - how couldn’t they?And also why the hell wouldn’t you want to make the country look good in a damn Hollywood movie?The truth is for boring documentaries…
“Not saying they don’t have some shady dealings - how couldn’t they?”Some? ***** that - just take just one example: Iran. Not only did the CIA ***** them so hard in 53 that they became a psycho theocracy, but we are TO THIS VERY DAY involved in a proxy war with them (and that leaves out a huge pile of crap in the middle). To blow that off as “some shady dealings” is ludicrous. “How couldn’t they?” - well having public oversight into their CRIMINAL acts would be a ***** start.The truth is that the only military danger we face is of our own making. “If we knew everything” most americans would hang their heads in shame and demand that our government stop ***** the world with our corporate sponsored warfare. “And also why the hell wouldn’t you want to make the country look good in a damn Hollywood movie?”Because it is a ***** distracting LIE. There is blood on all of our hands and honesty is the only way we are going to achieve a just society. We have much more to lose by keeping secrets than we do by shining a flashlight into the rat’s nest.
Let’s no forget funding bin laden either..
Thanks for reminding me that there is a new Stargate Atlantis episode.
Thank you for reminding me of that fact.
O.K. … I knew the whole Panama invasion was rather stinky … I figured it had alot to do with narco-trafficking. I had no idea that the US was laundering money through Panama. But that fits nicely…. Laundering the drg money in the nation where you are purchasing it …Oh I mean fighting the war on drugs.
Panama? The CIA were involved in terrorist attacks, coups and assassinations in dozens of countries all around the world. On wikipedia, the section about CIA activities takes up a tiny portion of the enormous page listing all their covert activities around the world which have directly and indirectly caused the deaths of many, many people.
i wonder if the CIA will be investing in user-generated movies on youtube soon
24 comes to mind.
On 24 anyone who is ever accused of anything gets tortured. I wonder how true that is…
I think this linked document breaks it down nicely. George Bush Sr.’s involvement as a former/current CIA man leading the nation is real stinky. ………….. rwor.org/a/firstvol/885/cia3.htm
Nothing reeks more of CIA intervention or Hollywood (W)Horedom more than the film United 93. And I’ll leave it at that.
W.
According to some conspiracy theorists, it goes a bit deeper than subtle messages. For instance, the machine in Contact depicted is supposedly almost exactly the same as a machine the CIA built called Project Looking Glass, as an attempt to peer into the future.
*Facepalm.
As someone with 35 gb of conspiracy theory related material on my system and 25 years experience researching this stuff I hope you are able to appreciate the fullness and depth of the following:That’s ***** stupid. Upgrade your ***** filters, post haste.
where do you find 35gb of theory?!
They permit on site filming sometimes. I was there when Affleck was filming something–probably Sum of all Fears. They send everyone who might be in the building an email to let them know whats going on, so you can avoid the area if you don’t want to get caught on camera, or if you want to stop in and watch the fun.Anyway, between takes I shouted “Affleck, you the bomb in Phantoms, yo.” It got a big laugh from him, as that was probably the last place he was expecting to hear it. Unfortunately, the only thing security heard was “BOMB!” and I was subsequently handcuffed and the build was evacuated. You have to give Affleck credit because the whole time he was trying to explain the joke to the security guards, but they were having none of it. They took me in a room for questioning, and after 2 hours of me explaining the detailed history and inside jokes of Kevin Smith films, they let me go home (free day off!) until they could file the report. The only problem was, that I car pooled that day. So, I had to whistle for a cab and when it came near the license plate said fresh and it had dice in the mirror, if anything I could say that this cab is rare, but I thought nah forget it.
Damn it you got me.
Hahahahaha….. yesYou made my day
well played sir….i was had…
the CIA is a vestige of the cold war that should be decommissioned completely.
Yeah, using them to fight terrorism undercover and spy on rogue nations is so yesterday. [rolls eyes]
JimmySpaza, enjoy drinking that CIA kool-aid
I don’t drink anyone’s Koolaid. I have been in the service of America both in and out of uniform for a long time. Having experienced those things of which you can only comment, I’d say that it isn’t ME who has been drinking someone’s Koolaid.If the CIA did half the extraordinary things about which the liberal establishement complains, it would be the most powerful, intelligent group of men and women in all history…and would have cured cancer, solved the world’s economic crises, and achieved nirvana by now.
Noticed the increase of terrorist-plot movies/series ? They simply use hollywood to increase to ‘fear of terror’.. .. and the people love it. .. .suckers.
This is very possible, but I believe Hollywood is just taking advantage of the fact they can make a movie about something we’re already worried about…Things that are relevant to the times generally do better, look at South Park
Well let’s look at South Park. If you watch the show from start to finish, you will see a massive attitude change from the creators.From calling war “Lame” and “Gay” to change the view and Sadam became the biggest joke they had who was easily killed. Bin Laden became a butt of many jokes as did terrorists… In fact Jesus himself was killing terrorists and Arabs.The change was so sudden, it was almost someone had a word to the writers and producers of the show.
I thought Iron Man was an entertaining piece of propoanda.
World Factbook, anyone?https:// cia.gov/library/publications/the-world …
or Facebook, anyone?
The irony of the CIA buying the rights to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is too much to handle.I guess this also explains why the “Dark Knight” so plainly espoused neo-con ideals.
I’m pretty sure the CIA only gets involved with movies that are about American foreign policy or realistically portray spies or some such.They wouldn’t give a ***** about The Dark Knight because they don’t know what a metaphor is.
Thats funny, I walked out of Dark Knight thinking it was cleverly made so both Neo-cons and liberals would both think it supported their opposing view.
I see that the leftwing wacko brigade woke up and immediately got on their parents’ computer.Please, if the CIA were really that involved in Hollywood, then they wouldn’t have allowed liberal extremist movies from Michael Moore or Oliver Stone to be made in the first place. And, if the CIA were able to control Hollywood, they wouldn’t have let Hollywood directors and story writers change the original story lines from such authors like Tom Clancy when those stories got made into movies.Remember the “Sum of All Fears” movie? It was originally a book by Tom Clancy where ISLAMIC extremists in Iran nuked America. When the liberals in Hollywood got a hold of the rights to make a movie out of the story, they changed the enemy from Islamic terrorists to racist whites in Russia.If you conspiracy freaks were correct in your political assessment of the CIA and Hollywood, then the CIA would have made sure that the movie had Islamic terrorists, not white people, as the enemy. They didn’t…therefore, you are wrong (again!).
your powers of reasoning are foolproof!
Have you watched any recent films?
I don’t care who wrote the book. If you think Islamic extremists from Iran are going to nuke America, you must be ***** nuts. David Icke wrote this in 1990, about one the things that could be used to set up a global government and global economy: “One possible ‘emergency’ to set off this chain of events could be that of a terrorist with a nuclear weapon, threatening to destroy the United States. Watch for such a deceit, because something like this will be used to justify the coup in its first stages, if it gets that far.” And of course it did happen. We’re already five years through Iraq and very close to action against Iran. Thankfully, many people have woken up to the fact that Iran don’t have nuclear weapons neither, and aren’t developing any.
… none of those things you’ve just mentioned has happened. What colour is the sky in your world?
No, what happened is that America claimed Iraq and Iran had WMD’s - blatant lies that were used to cause conflict in the Middle-East. That is what DID happen. What is GOING to happen is the introduction of a global goverment and global economy. This has come to light particularly in the past year as the economic collapse came to the forefront of the public mind. I should have clarified that in the original post.
CIA is working everywhere in the world to disturb democracy.To make an ‘American’ world.
“So in a previous Scott film, Black Hawk Down, a character based on a real-life soldier who had also been a child rapist lost that part of his backstory when he came to the screen.”How do you get into Delta or become an Army Ranger when you are a known child rapist? Something to back up that claim would be nice.
John Stebbins was a Ranger in Mog in ‘93. The “paper pusher” office guy as portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the movie. Stebbins received a Silver Star for his actions in Mog. Stebbins’ story in Mog seemed ready made for movies. Some of the incidents of him nearly being hit by RPG projectiles are also done in the movie as everybody around him thought he was a total goner.In ‘97 his actions came to light about inappropriate actions with a child. It went to court, which took a couple years, and he was convicted for child molestation and rape. He’s in Leavenworth doing a few decades hard time for it. I don’t know the exact details of it, maybe it’s in this appellate document: armfor.uscourts.gov/opinions/2005Term/0 …When the movie was being made, it came through that he was convicted. The Army asked the movie makers to change the characters name to something fictional. The movie makers said they made a creative decision and based the character McGregor played on a “composite character” that included a few different people that were in Mog. But McGregor’s character is easily 90%+ based on Stebbins.
Ah I see, he was convicted AFTER Mog.Thanks.
More importantly, maybe he just didn’t discuss his past as a child rapist while he was fighting for his life, surrounded by people trying to kill him. If I was a child rapist in the middle of a firefight after my copper went down, I probably wouldn’t turn to my teammates and go “so you guys know I ***** at 12 year old…right?”
While I’m sure the CIA has been involved with movies about the military (and would we think the movie makers had any credibility if they DIDN’T have the CIA advising them?), some of these claims are just crazy. When I left Charlie Wilson’s War, I had the specific impression that they claimed the Afghan war started BECAUSE we gave them arms, then left. So the author’s claim that they “put aside the notion that because we did that [supply arms], we had 9/11″ doesn’t really hold water.
there is a disconnect between the Movies and real life. movie goers consider the stories to be Hollywood espionage fantasy when they are in fact inspired by real life events. this ***** goes on. it’s not science fiction. fuk, the enemy is our own. was there any doubt?
I Am Legend with Will Smith.With the Amerikan Flag, Amerikan Soldiers, and a Church shown at the end representing the last stronghold of “Amerika”.Check out the original, much better ending on the DVD extras.Knowing that I’m just a Boxer in this Animal Farm ruled by Pigs, I’ll say how much I love Big Brother before I end up under real life shovel Diggs….
Garbage article with no sources. Not saying it isn’t true, but calling some one a “child rapist” with out going in to the matter any further at all, is a bit shady as far as writing articles go. Might have been credible if the author had tried to anchor the article in the facts instead of just spitting off one accusation after another.
Yeah, the article tosses in the rape word, then the reader is left hanging on it.The character played by Ewan McGregor was based on a guy named Stebbins. Stebbins, the “paper pusher” office guy that nobody thought would last 5 minutes in the fighting actually did some remarkable stuff in the battle. Years later is when the court thing happened. While the movie was being made, Stebbins was convicted of child molestation and rape. Then the Army asked the movie makers to change the name of the character.
Anyone who thinks that movies that are based on actual event are completely sunshine and lollypops are fooling themselves. These are still works of fiction so yes the unpleasant is changed to make a happy ending. And if you use movies to gain knowledge of the world I feel sorry for you. Everything you encounter today is propaganda. All one has to do is to pay attention to the news to see that the truth does not matter. Anyone remember the Palin, Africa story from this week? Yes your movies are propaganda. They want you to buy into their world. Your news papers and books are propaganda, they want to divide you. Your TV is propaganda, they want to sell to you. And the biggest propaganda of all is a government, they want you to think you need them. Truth has vanished from our media. It has all turned into hearsay, gossip, and rumor. Learn to trust your instinct and think for yourself. Too many people are willing to accept the absurd because a so called expert says it’s true.
The thought did cross my mind that the government had some involvement in the movie industry. Just watch the movie “300″. It was a two hour, thinly veiled propaganda flick for why we should “stay the course” in the Middle East.Complete with all the flashy visuals and loud noises that grab the attention of the lowest common denominator of citizen.
Yup. The CIA has its hand in everything. They also helped with advice in the movie Executive Decision.
The CIA was obviously behind the financing of Pauly Shore movies!….It would take sick, sadistic psychopaths to inflict that kind of mindless garbage on society!
Pretty scary, yet not really surprising…
Only thing I can think of to say is “***** GOVERNMENT!”
the FBI, “we’re not nearly as evil as the CIA”
Hollywood is nothing more than a modern day propaganda machine/ mind numbing device.my opinion before article.
the Army helped fund over 200 of the Hollywood war movies to date.
CIA’s influence may be most important on imaging as Hollywood movies routinely uglify other peoples. Long time ago it was the Germans, then the Blacks, then the Latinos, … Ever notice the Klingons look like a cross between Chinese and Middle-Easterners? The latest example are ‘TransSiberian’: Russians are bad and rude; ‘Taken’: Albenians are slave traders. The list goes on and on. LOL…
Check out this interview with X-Files/Lone Gunmen Star Dean Haglund, he talks about how the FBI, CIA influences scripts. infowars.com/audio/haglund.htm