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Hollywood Films and CIA Propaganda
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by Erik Larson | November 16, 2008 at 06:25 pm
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Shocked? The CIA provides consulting services for Hollywood filmmakers on their spy flicks, and works to ensure certain details are kept out of films, making them puff pieces instead of exposes. Also, the CIA bought the film rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm", and funded the British animated version. In addition, questions still remain about the mysterious circumstances of the death of Gary DeVore, who was working on a script set in the time period around the US invasion of Panama to take out puppet dictator Noriega, and had been finding information related to US-Panamanian money laundering.
Everyone who watches films knows about Hollywood's fascination with spies. From Hitchcock's postwar espionage thrillers, through cold war tales such as Torn Curtain, into the paranoid 1970s when the CIA came to be seen as an agency out of control in films such as Three Days of the Condor, and right to the present, with the Bourne trilogy and Ridley Scott's forthcoming Body of Lies, film-makers have always wanted to get in bed with spies. What's less widely known is how much the spies have wanted to get in bed with the film-makers. In fact, the story of the CIA's involvement in Hollywood is a tale of deception and subversion that would seem improbable if it were put on screen.
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at 19:31 on November 16th, 2008
Viva la Dictatura!
at 23:48 on November 16th, 2008
It is not any surprise. Hear some CIA officials speaking in John Pilger's War on Democracy; this organization doesn't have any regard for democratic principles, it supposedly is trying to propagate and they will collude with any dubious elements to overthrow a government, no matter even if it is elected through legitimate elections.
So cinema is not alone a medium through they were trying to propagate their idea.
at 00:18 on November 17th, 2008
Thats really intresting, we see change in yhe ethinicity of hollywood villians according to the geopolitical scenario, from time yo yime.From cold war time russian agents to Muslim Jehadis and Mexican warlords to now chinese gangsters.God knows how much this trick works in changing the mindset .
at 15:47 on November 17th, 2008
yeah- and TV and print, too, no doubt. I just updated the story with a link to Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's infiltration of US media corps that was somewhat exposed during the Church Committee hearings in the 70's after Nixon's abuses of power came to light. Supposedly shut down, it was probably instead outsourced to one of the CIA's private shell companies and funded by black budgets, so there's no chance of oversight w/o whistleblowers coming forward or some accidental exposure- which they would they use their media, and their cooperative/coercive relations with the Big 5 mega-conglomerates that own most US media, to cover up, spin, distort, obfuscate to make it harder for the public to figure out what happened.
Wikipedia is no doubt infiltrated and overrun by CIA sponsored users on sensitive topics, if Jimmy Wales isn't actually on their payroll- just look at how quickly any information disappears from the September 11 page, no matter how credibly sourced, if it contradicts the Official 9/11 Conspiracy Theory.
It's amazing how much stuff is in the public domain that contradicts what we've been told
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