Ben Affleck person
also: Aflac
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Ben Affleck founded
Argo documented
“I never saw a connection to that. I think it would have been too old. The stuff about Iran today is interesting. If you want to get a cinematographer, anyways, a movie that talks about this, the private rescue, there's a movie called Argo, …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 3 (2) @ 1:06:59
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Argo won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2012. The film starred Ben Affleck as a CIA agent named Tony Mendez, who poses as a Hollywood producer scouting locations in Iran. He helps to rescue six Americans who slipped away from the U.S…
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all geared towards Langley being heroes. Left out any hint that the CIA had created the crisis in Iran by backing the coup in 1953, that overthrew an Iranian democracy. A decade earlier, Aflac had starred in The Sum of All Fears, which we k…
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The Sum of All Fears, a film adaptation of a Tom Clancy novel written largely by the CIA's entertainment liaison, whose main person was Deputy CIA Director Jack Ryan, who stops nuclear war from breaking out. Hello. During Argo's filming, th…
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Agency analyst, former CIA agent John Kirikou, K-I-R-I-A-K-O-U, recalled bumping into Affleck at Langley along with several other Hollywood stars like Harrison Ford. Affleck admitted that, quote, probably Hollywood is full of CIA agents. We…
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and helped set up a permanent CIA network in Hollywood that Ben Affleck hinted at. The network included Affleck's ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, who played CIA agent Sidney Bristow in the TV hit series, Alias, and filmed a recruitment video for …
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I never saw a connection to that. I think it would have been too old. The stuff about Iran today is interesting. If you want to get a cinematographer, anyways, a movie that talks about this, the private rescue, there's a movie called Argo, …