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ClandesTime 177 – Ice Station Zebra
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 04/21/2019 - 06:33
While it is now considered a Cold War classic Ice Station Zebra was a flop when it was first released.Subscriber Podcast #29 – Media Breakdown: Armando Iannucci at Chatham House
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 04/18/2019 - 09:37
On this month's subscriber-only podcast I breakOfficial Skripal Story Changes Yet Again, This Time with Added Ducks
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 04/17/2019 - 05:42
The Pentagon Worked on Every Major Military Movie for Over a Decade After WW2
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 04/16/2019 - 06:13
The post-WW2 period was the zenith for military and war movies - over 200 were made in the 1950s, and the same in the 1960s. According to an entry in the DOD's Hollywood database they provided support to every major military movie fVeteran of Sadr City Ambush Exposes The Long Road Home as Shameful Propaganda
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 04/11/2019 - 16:14
One of the veterans of the ambush in Sadr City in April 2004 has revealed that National Geographic's film The Long Road Home is a shameful piece of propaganda that butchers history and ignored offers of hPentagon Contracts Show US Army Subsidized Production Of National Geographic’s ‘Long Road Home’
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 04/11/2019 - 07:48
Production assistance agreements released by the Defense Department show the United States military used taxpayer money to subsidize part of the production of the National Geographic series, “The Long Road HKeanu Reeves Trains With Former SEAL/CIA Contractor for John Wick III
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 04/10/2019 - 07:12
In what appears to be little more than a promo for the third John Wick film, a recently-released video shows star Keanu Reeves being trained by former Navy SEAL and CIA contractor Shawn Ryan. A veteran of the war on terror, the video shows Ryan teachHow the Hell is Project Blue Book so Boring?
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 04/09/2019 - 11:52
UFOs. Probable extraterrestrials. Investigation and revelation. Nazi scientists. A military cover-up. With all these elements in place the History Channel's Project Blue Book should be an exciting, unpredictable replacement for The X-Files. Instead it is a dull-as-dishwater procedural thClandesTime 176 – What Vice Doesn’t Tell You about Dick Cheney
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 04/07/2019 - 07:11
Vice has won awards along with praise from audiences and critics alike, but how well does it inform its audience about Dick Cheney? This week I take a look at the important material that Vice overlooked, or didn’t know about.‘Film contains Russian Mob content and it was confirmed okay’ – FBI emails on Little Mizz Innocent
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 04/05/2019 - 11:51
Little Mizz Innocent has been languishing in development hell for several years as the 'female Jason Bourne movie' has struggled to get into production.‘Without any assistance from the military, then naturally, anything can happen’ – DOD File on Ice Station Zebra
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 04/03/2019 - 06:31
The production of Ice Station Zebra is a great case study in just how much influence the Pentagon can have over a movie script. The initial script - by multi-Oscar winning writer Paddy Chayefsky - was rejClandesTime 175 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: The Death of Osama Bin Laden
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/31/2019 - 06:46
Osama Bin Laden’s death is the perfect postmodern event, in that most of the reports detailing how, where and when he died contradict all the other reports.‘All Assistance is Provided at No Cost to You’ – FBI Letter to Martin Scorcese
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 03/28/2019 - 07:08
In late 2009 the FBI got wind of the fact that Martin Scorcese was developing The Wolf of Wall Street, about stock fraudster turned federal cooperator Jordan Belfort. So the Bureau's Michael Kortan wrote to Scorcese to offer their help and suppDepartment of Propaganda – Spy Culture on The Statist Quo podcast
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/26/2019 - 07:28
Word about the entertainment liaison offices continues to spread - The Statist Quo podcast recently did a focus episode on the DOD's film office, Phil Strub and the rewriting of movie scripts. Hosted by Matt, a US Army veteran and ex-convict, the epis‘We Trust the Box Office Becomes a Bell Ringer’ – Pentagon memo on Top Gun
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/25/2019 - 11:44
Top Gun was an enormous critical and commercial success and helped redefine the military-supported movie. It is not quite a war film, because there's no war and only a handful of people are killed. It isn't a history or biopic because all the charClandesTime 174 – The Big Short vs Margin Call
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 03/23/2019 - 13:14
The 2008 Wall Street crash has inspired little more than a staccato response from Hollywood, with very few films taking the subject seriously. In this episode I examine and review two of the more prominent movies that cover this topic – The Big Short and Margin Call.The US Military Celebrate Captain Marvel as ‘the film girls need’
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/22/2019 - 09:28
The US military, particularly the Air Force, invested a lot of time and resources in helping make Captain Marvel, and so far they are happy with the return on that investment. Yesterday, an article on Military.com celebrated Captain Marvel as 'the film girls need' and 'one the military commuCaptain Marvel: the latest propaganda collaboration between the military and the MCU
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/22/2019 - 07:44
Captain Marvel opened this weekend to a monster box office haul of $153 million domestically and over $450 million worldwide.The CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and Ice Station Zebra
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 03/21/2019 - 08:51
The 1968 spy and counterspy classic Ice Station Zebra was inspired by a real life event during the CIA/Air Force Corona spy satellite program. In April 1959 the satellite Discoverer 2 became the first to send a recovery capsule containing satellite survHow (and why) the Pentagon Rewrote Dennis the Menace
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/18/2019 - 06:04
Of all the many, many, many projects the Pentagon has supported, one of the most surprising and seemingly innocent is the mid-century TV series of Dennis the Menace. In one episode 'Dennis at Boot Camp' the producers asked for permission for three days filming at the NWhy the Pentagon Rejected Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 03/16/2019 - 14:08
In early 1977 the producers of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes approached the Pentagon about filming a couple of brief scenes at National Guard armories. Even though the National Guard Public Affairs staff thought it was a fun film and were happy to hClandesTime 173 – Public Enemies
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/15/2019 - 13:56
Public Enemies is a 2009 historical drama/thriller film that tells the story of the Bureau of Investigation’s manhunt for Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger. In this episode I examine the film, the politics of crime and the romanticising of criminals.Arnold Schwarzenegger Now Doing Military Outreach in Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/11/2019 - 07:21
Arnold Schwarzenegger is famous for many things – being Mr Universe, The Terminator, the Governator and Commando. Now he&ClandesTime 172 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: Charlie Wilson’s War
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/10/2019 - 08:55
George Crile’s book Charlie Wilson’s War is the most in-depth account of the CIA’s support to the Afghan mujahideen, based on countless interviews with inside sources.Spy Culture in LA Magazine Article on Captain Marvel
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 03/09/2019 - 05:31
Yesterday, LA Magazine published a piece on the military and Captain Marvel and - I'm pleased to say - they used this site as a research source. After years of researching, speaking and writing about Marvel's relationship with the military it seems the word has Spy Culture in Newsweek article on Captain Marvel
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/08/2019 - 08:13
I was recently made aware of a Newsweek article on Captain Marvel that used this site as a source. The article ‘Captain Marvel’ Latest Superhero Movie to Promote Air Force in Trend Stretching Back to Comics is one of several that highlight how the new MCU movie Captain MarSubscriber Podcast #28 – Panorama Breakdown: The Skripal Affair
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/05/2019 - 15:39
The Novichok Anniversary: BBC Change Official Skripal Story Yet Again
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/03/2019 - 07:56
We’re coming up on the first anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and the official story has been revised once again.ClandesTime 171 – The Last Ship
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/03/2019 - 06:32
The Last Ship is one of the most popular cable TV shows of recent years, as well as one of the most successful pieces of militainment. In this episode I examine the politics of the show, in particular how it depicts a conflict between the US and China.When the US Army Decided a Chin Strap was More Important Than the Death of One of Their Soldiers
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 02/28/2019 - 06:03
The US Army provided extensive support to the National Geographic film series The Long Road Home, supposedly to ensure it depicted the real-life battle of Sadr City in a 'reasonablHow and Why the FBI Rewrite Hollywood Movies
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/27/2019 - 09:36
Just like other government agencies the FBI are deeply involved in the entertainment industry, collaborating with film andTV producers to polish the Bureau’s public imageand project their messaging into the minds of moviegoers.FBI Releases Almost Entirely Redacted File on Burn Notice
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 02/26/2019 - 06:03
The FBI recently released a tranche of documents on the USA Network TV series Burn Notice.ClandesTime 170 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: Anwar al Awlaki
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/24/2019 - 06:22
Anwar al Awlaki rose to notoriety in the 2000s as a leading internet jihadist whose lectures and videos were very popular among the emerging Islamist movement.When Al Qaeda Leader Awlaki Picked Up Hookers at Top Gun Naval Base
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/23/2019 - 05:37
Anwar Al Awlaki was the head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula until his death in a CIA drone strike in 2011.FBI Apparently Had No Problem with ‘Deep State’ Storyline in Shooter
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/20/2019 - 10:56
Compared to the DOD, the US intelligence agencies support a more politically diverse range of movies, from the hi-tech surveillance thriller Enemy of the State to torture porn like Zero Dark Thirty and Unthinkable. One such controversial movie was Shooter, which depicts a deep state element framing a Vietnam veteran foClandesTime 169 – Margaret Thatcher and the Entertainment Industry
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/17/2019 - 06:46
The British government’s role in using the entertainment industry is smaller than in America, but nonetheless involves many of the same familiar activities.The Long Road Home – Tom Secker on Fortress on a Hill
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/16/2019 - 07:14
I recently joined Henri of Fortress on a Hill to discuss the National Geographic drama series The Long Road Home, in light of the over 400 pages of documents that I obtained detailing the US Army's support for the show.Steven Seagal and the Geneva Convention
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/13/2019 - 05:33
1996's action thriller Executive Decision may be light on action and lacking thrills but it is notable for one thing - the script violated the Geneva Convention and led to the Pentagon temporarily withdrawing support for the film.Subscriber Podcast #27 – The Suid Archive
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/10/2019 - 11:01
In this month's subscriber-only podcast I explore several DOD-supported films and the files on theDOD Accidentally Release Social Security Numbers for Executive Decision Stars
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 02/04/2019 - 04:22
The Department of Defense's entertainment liaison office file on the 1996 thriller Executive Decision was, for many years, secreted in a private archive in a library in Georgetown.ClandesTime 168 – Executive Decision
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/03/2019 - 06:27
The 1996 action thriller Executive Decision was an early example of what should be called ‘irregular war films’, pitting a team of special forces commandos against a gang of terrorists, on a hijacked plane headed for Washington DC.Stars of CBS’ FBI Admit They are Making Propaganda for the FBI
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/02/2019 - 06:24
Missy Peregrym and Zeeko Zaki, two of the stars of the CBS drama FBI were asked about the government shutdown this week, and responded with a statement that sounds like it was written by the FBI's Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs Unit.The Pentagon Rewrites History Through Movies – In Total Violation of its Directives on Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/23/2019 - 05:42
The DOD claim that they only rewrite Hollywood scripts in order to ensure accuracy and to inform the public about the military and its mission. This is total bullshit.ClandesTime 167 – Phil Strub’s Greatest Hits
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/20/2019 - 05:55
I recently found out that Strub retired from his job as the DOD’s Hollywood liaison last July, though this wasn’t covered by any news outlets and the DOD didn’t bother to tell anyone.Why is the Coast Guard’s Hollywood Office Still Open Despite the Government Shut Down?
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 01/19/2019 - 08:26
The US Coast Guard's film office remains open despite the government shut down.The Wire Season 5 Review (preview)
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 01/17/2019 - 09:49
US Army Documents Reveal Massive Support For Long Road Home Miniseries, Possible Fraud At Military’s Entertainment Liaison Office
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/16/2019 - 11:45
The National Geographic drama series The Long Road Home tells a version of the story of the battle for Sadr City iHow Many Movies has the Pentagon Prevented from Being Made?
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/09/2019 - 06:21
The Pentagon's censorship of movie scripts is fairly well established - I have documented numerous instances on this site. But their ultimate power is the ability to kill a production, to prevent a film being made.Fake News, Trump and the Freedom of Information Act
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/06/2019 - 08:31
A story doing the rounds claims that the Trump administration is taking advantage of the government shut-down to change the rules by which the Department of the Interior processes and responds to FOIA requests.ClandesTime 166 – An Alternative History of Al Qaeda: Aimen Dean
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/06/2019 - 06:34
Aimen Dean, born Ali Al-Duranni, was MI6’s spy inside Al Qaeda from 1998 to 2006. In this episode I do a critical view of his autobiography Nine Lives: My Time as MI6’s Top Spy Inside Al Qaeda, and how Dean’s story connects to other people and events explored in this series.