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[Video] Jack Ryan, the CIA and Venezuela

Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 11/18/2019 - 05:30
A video essay presenting my breakdown of Amazon's Jack Ryan, including how the CIA, DOD and other US government agencies were involved in producing it.  I outline some of the history between the government and Tom Clancy productions before breaking down how seasons 1 and 2 are propaganda for US foreign
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https://www.spyculture.com/video-jack-ryan-the-cia-and-venezuela/

Jack Ryan, Midway, and For All Mankind

Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 11/10/2019 - 12:55
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent releases Jack Ryan (on Amazon), For all Mankind (on Apple TV) and Midway (in theaters now).
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https://www.spyculture.com/jack-ryan-midway-and-for-all-mankind/

US Coast Guard’s Hollywood Office Takes 3 YEARS to Release 20 Pages of Documents

Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 10/28/2019 - 06:56
In March 2016 I put in a FOIA request with the US Coast Guard.  Several appeals, a lot of ignored emails and well over three years later they finally released just 20 pages of documents on the activities of their entertai
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https://www.spyculture.com/us-coast-guards-hollywood-office-takes-3-years-to-release-20-pages-of-documents/

ClandesTime 196 – The Final Countdown

Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 10/26/2019 - 08:07
The Final Countdown is a classic of good bad cinema, featuring an aircraft carrier that goes through a wormhole and goes back in time to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked. In this episode I review and analyse the film, which benefited from full DOD support.
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https://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-196-the-final-countdown/

MI5 (Wrongly) Suspected Odeon Cinema Chain of Being Front for Commie Spies

Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 10/23/2019 - 05:38
A 1940s MI5 file shows that British intelligence suspected that the Odeon chain of cinemas was a front organisation providing cover for Soviet spies to get into the UK.  Proving once again that it is the intelligence services who are the bigge
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https://www.spyculture.com/mi5-wrongly-suspected-odeon-cinema-chain-of-being-front-for-commie-spies/

Jack Ryan Star John Krasinski Tries to Dispell Allegations of Propaganda

Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 10/22/2019 - 10:21
With just a week to go before season 2 of Amazon's Jack Ryan is released and the eponymous star John Krasinski has tried to downplay allegations that the show is propaganda for a US coup or war in Venezuela.  In an interview he trie
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https://www.spyculture.com/jack-ryan-star-john-krasinski-tries-to-dispell-allegations-of-propaganda/

‘While the Script is Somewhat Clichéd, We Are Not Movie Critics’ – DOD Memo on The Heroes of Desert Storm

Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 10/22/2019 - 05:39
There aren't very many films about the first Gulf War, which is ironic because if ever there was a war for PR purposes, that was it.  While Jarhead and Three Kings were rejected by the Pentagon's Hollywood office
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https://www.spyculture.com/while-the-script-is-somewhat-cliched-we-are-not-movie-critics-dod-memo-on-the-heroes-of-deser...

Vietnam Bans a Movie, But Somehow It is China’s Fault?

Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 10/14/2019 - 08:23
Today's entertainment news features an absolute gem of political hypocrisy: Vietnam's one party 'Communist' state has banned the animated kids' movie Abominable, and the Western media are heralding the decision, claiming that Vietnam are standing up to China's censorious one party 'Communist' state.  This is perhaps the dumbest employmen
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https://www.spyculture.com/vietnam-bans-a-movie-but-somehow-it-is-chinas-fault/

Ex-MI6 Boss Says he Wouldn’t Have Allowed Skyfall to Blow Up MI6 HQ

Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 10/09/2019 - 05:53
Former head of MI6 and Iraq War criminal Sir Richard Dearlove continued his recent speight of complaining about everything by claiming that he was never told that the producers of several Bond films had been granted permission to film the MI6 headquarters at Vauxhall
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https://www.spyculture.com/ex-mi6-boss-says-he-wouldnt-have-allowed-skyfall-to-blow-up-mi6-hq/

Did the Pentagon Support Venezuela Coup Porn Jack Ryan Season 2?

Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 10/07/2019 - 17:04
As prep for my forthcoming video on Amazon's Jack Ryan as next-gen propaganda I've been keeping an eye on promotions and events around the launch of season two in November.  The first episode was shown at New York Comic-Con a few days ago, and at a panel disc
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https://www.spyculture.com/did-the-pentagon-support-venezuela-coup-porn-jack-ryan-season-2/

Ex-MI6 Boss Blasts Le Carré’s Spy Novels, Even Though MI6 Vetted Most of Them

Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 10/01/2019 - 06:36
Former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove has criticised spy author John Le Carré for his 'nihilistic' and 'corrosive' view of British intelligence, even though Le Carré submitted all of his early novels to MI6 for them to review prior to publication.  This appears
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https://www.spyculture.com/ex-mi6-boss-blasts-le-carres-spy-novels-even-though-mi6-vetted-most-of-them/

Even the US Army Warned of Violence at the Joker Premiere But So Far, So Good

Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 09/30/2019 - 12:02
For weeks the internet has been awash with claims, rumours, scuttlebutt and hearsay about some kind of shooting at the premiere of the new Joker movie.  Even the US Army sent out a memo saying they'd received a 'credible threat
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https://www.spyculture.com/even-the-us-army-warned-of-violence-at-the-joker-premiere-but-so-far-so-good/

ClandesTime 194 – Oliver Stone’s JFK

Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 09/29/2019 - 05:19
This week, I welcome to the show author and friend James Oddy to discuss the JFK assassination case and its treatment in the Oliver Stone movie JFK. We look at the psychological and political consequences of the assassination, as well as the political and cultural impact of the film.
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https://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-194-oliver-stones-jfk/

Napalm, Ambushes and Russian Roulette: Why the Pentagon Rejected The Deer Hunter

Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 09/26/2019 - 05:56
The epic war drama The Deer Hunter won five Oscars, despite the central conceit and metaphor of the film being inaccurate.  This conceit - that the Viet Cong forced American prisoners of war to play Russian Roulette - is the main reason the f
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https://www.spyculture.com/napalm-ambushes-and-russian-roulette-why-the-pentagon-rejected-the-deer-hunter/

ROI: Does the Pentagon Fund Movies?

Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 09/20/2019 - 07:48
One of the most common conspiracy theories you hear in this line of research is that the Pentagon and CIA fund Hollywood movies.  This isn't entirely untrue - the CIA covertly funded productions of Animal Farm and 1984 in the early Cold War period - but on the whole, it is untrue.  In all the many thousands of documen
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https://www.spyculture.com/roi-does-the-pentagon-fund-movies/

Revolving Doors: Technical Advisors and The Entertainment-Propaganda Complex

Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 09/18/2019 - 10:37
The role of the technical advisor is crucial to understanding the military-Hollywood relationship, but very few people know who these people are or what they do.  Even less well known is that a significant number of private industry techni
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https://www.spyculture.com/revolving-doors-technical-advisors-and-the-entertainment-propaganda-complex/