The Colonel's Corner Hollywood and CIA

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0:00 Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to take this opportunity since I had had these tabs open on the CIA in Hollywood for quite a while. And generally, it's true that as I've done this research, weirdly enough, current events correspond with research that I've done.

0:31 Generally try to bring the information as I find it, but obviously events have been unfolding so quickly. And since you guys have done such a wonderful job of getting the word out about Operation Gladio, I've had commitments to go on people's shows. So the tabs that I have keep stacking up. So whenever possible.

1:02 I want to correspond the research with information that is put out there so you guys can get a deep dive into the backstory of these programs. So I am going to leave the chat open here. I am not going to be over on X so that if you guys want me to see something, not all of the time does all of the comments come over.

1:30 If you want me to address something, please put it in the Rumble chat so that I can see it. I do see YouTube chats, though, and I know they come over from previous broadcasts that we've done on Rumble. I'm going to start off with an article that first appeared in Covert Action magazine in March of 2022. But because this is a live dig.

1:57 I am going to be switching articles, and I'll do my best to let you guys know when I do that. First of all, this article is dated March of 2022, so it is not an old article. It begins in 2012. Argo, and you guys know I don't watch movies, so don't ask me about the movies. You can ask each other in the live chat.

2:28 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. Embassy during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis when Islamic revolutionaries

2:58 stormed the U.S. embassy and took 66 Americans hostage. You guys know that we have done extensive research into that event. And I am very skeptical at this point that the Iranian hostage situation took place in the way that it was described to us. What do I mean by that? The Iranian, they want you to believe.

3:29 That just ordinary students on the street, jackboots, which we have discovered always has an intelligence background in every event that we've researched extensively. That's orchestrated by an intelligence agency. But even leaving that aside, they want you to believe that a bunch of just random students stormed the embassy.

4:01 and took embassy officials hostage. Now we have confirmed that several of those embassy personnel were CIA agents. So again, these people are trained to not let that happen. There were Marines guarding the embassy. They have guns. Again, take that for whatever you want. I don't believe any of the information that we've ever been fed.

4:32 Happy Sunday, war hamster. So the key to disproving that it was a random act came with the installation of the Mullahs in the aftermath of the revolution. The apparatuses that had been set up by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, and we tracked the training and the setting up of the SAVAK,

5:05 which was their intelligence and it's their CIA. It was portrayed as also being part of a national police force. That apparatus was set up, you've heard me say it many times, by Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. The training initially was done by MI6 and CIA. About five years into the program, that training was turned over to Mossad.

5:36 Yes, you heard me correctly. The Israeli intelligence counterpart to the CIA was training the Shah's national police and intelligence apparatus. That organization, the SAVAK, with the exception that had like several different divisions in it, with the exception of one, and it was not the intelligence or the paramilitary capability, was left intact when the Mullahs took over.

6:06 That to me is a clear indication that it was the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh into the Shah. The Shah had become so unpopular, not unlike Batista in Cuba, that there needed to be another regime change. In comes the Mullahs. And they kept the same apparatus, the Savak, intact. Name change just like...

6:38 Formosa to Taiwan, and off to the races we go. There was not a lot of the apparatus that was set up by the CIA, MI6, and Mossad that changed during the Mullah's regime. So just keep that in the back of your mind as we go through this. Back to the story. With the CIA reviewing the script, Argo took liberties with the truth, according to the Atlantic Magazine.

7:09 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 know is talked about a lot in the last several days.

7:37 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, the CIA brought the filmmakers to Langley for a tour and offered Aflac access to...

8:10 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 just don't know it, unquote.

8:40 Theater of War, How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood is a new documentary produced by Media Education Foundation, exposing the links between the CIA Pentagon and Hollywood. The film follows the journey of media professor Roger Stahl across America as he interviews people, including industry insiders, who detail how the military and CIA have tried to

9:09 valorize their activities in hundreds of Hollywood films and television shows scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. I have long enjoyed the speculation that Tom Clancy was writing CIA public relations. Absolutely. The propaganda is extremely effective because it's carried out under the guise of entertainment.

9:41 Only very subtly are viewers conditioned. One of the most poignant scenes of theaters of war has Stahl bringing Oliver Stone a framed copy of a 1984, I'm sure that's a coincidental year, rejection letter he received by the Pentagon's entertainment office for Platoon, a film about the disintegration of the armed forces during Vietnam.

10:09 In 1987, Platoon won the Academy Award. And again, we already know that basically the Nobel Peace Prize is a confirmation of people doing what they want it to do. And that's very similar to the Academy Awards, most people allege. Donald Baroque, the head of the Pentagon's Office of Entertainment, wrote to Stone in a rejection letter.

10:41 Quote, in our opinion, the script basically creates an unbalanced portrayal by stereotyping black soldiers using rampant drug abuse, illiteracy, and a concentrating action on brutality. In other words, we don't like it. So let's look up real quick as we're going through this. Who is Donald Baroque?

11:10 Donald, and you spell his last name, B-A-R-U-C-H. Okay. Donald Baroque. Well, that's interesting. Because Donald doesn't seem to have a Wikipedia page. But there is a lot written about him. Let's see. There's a...

11:52 University of New York EDU site that has his papers, and there does seem to be a lot of papers on him with scripts for motion pictures, television, and I'll tell you what website that is, library.baruch.cuny.edu.

12:22 That's very interesting. Because sometimes some of the most interesting parts of these digs are what they leave out. So here's an obituary that talks about him and his role in the Department of Defense and interaction with the movie and television industry. Weirdly enough, that started in 1949. You know, like right after the Pentagon was set up.

12:54 And it talks about his name appearing in the archives, the National Archives, multiple times. It says he comes from a well-known family. His father and three uncles were famous Baroque brothers from South Carolina. Huh, another South Carolina guy, like William Pauly. The Baroques were known for their roles in finance, statesmen, and diplomacy. Although a streak of...

13:25 for show business, ran in the family as well with Donald's father, who was a financier. According to his obituary in the New York Times, he had many friends on Broadway, was credited with bringing the first jazz band, and they're talking about his father at the time, back as late as the 1890s. And it says that his brother Hart

13:57 started out as a stage actor in 1890 under the name Nathaniel Hartwig. So he changed his name, but later joined his brothers in finance and became a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Herman was a doctor and served as a U.S. ambassador to Portugal. Holy moly. For those of you who don't know, Portugal.

14:25 And it does say he was the ambassador after World War II. So for those of you who don't know, with your Gladio glasses on, Portugal was a fascist dictatorship during World War II, supposedly neutral, but they were already fascist. It is also the home of a gender press where they set up a Gladio program in Portugal that Yves Saint Laurent, a couple of other people,

14:54 were notorious in the beginnings of Operation Gladio, working with Otto Skorzeny in pulling off terrorist attacks, both inside and outside of Europe. So it's interesting that he was the ambassador there. Bernard Baroque, the most prominent member of the family, was a famous financier and presidential advisor. The four brothers were the children of Simon Baroque, who immigrated

15:25 From Prussia in 1855. That's crazy. Let's see. Pursuing his own career path, Don Baroque found himself at the Pentagon by way of Broadway and Hollywood. In the 1930s, he produced four off-Broadway plays and then moved to Los Angeles. And late, he produced movies for Paramount in New York. During World War II, he served in Washington.

16:00 as an officer for the public information producing training films. And when the Department of Defense was formed in 1949, at which point, until his retirement in 1989, Baroque served as the chief of motion picture production branch inside the Pentagon. He reviewed all movies, television scripts to make recommendations. When Baroque's office...

16:32 was created in 1949, it was stepping into an already established relationship between Hollywood, the Pentagon, and now the CIA, but prior to that the OSS for training. The first instance of military assistance in commercial film took place at an air show in Long Island, New York in 1911 when Army Lieutenant Hap Arnold

17:03 who went on to create the Army Air Corps Command during World War II, agreed to be filmed flying stunts in his Army aircraft. And it goes on and talks about a whole bunch of other stuff. It's a very long article. But that article is at text-message.blogs.archives.government. So this is an actual government document about this guy's involvement.

17:32 in the intelligence military film production, just to corroborate what this article is saying. So, going on with the article. Don Baroque, the head of Pentagon's Office of Entertainment, wrote to Stone and says, basically, you can't do that because it's too vivid. Stone told Stahl that for years,

18:01 He had to shelve Platoon, whose script was written in 1975, along with Born on the Fourth of July, another anti-war film based on the biography of a paralyzed veteran, Ron Kovic, K-O-V-I-C. According to Stone, the Pentagon's entertainment office was set up to, quote, set up to provide accuracy to filmmaking about the military, but instead they do the opposite.

18:27 They promote inaccuracies and lies, unquote. They only want movies that glorify the American soldier, glorify our patriotism, the homeland, and nationalism. This is nonsense. They fetishize the military. Nobody can say a bad word about the military, which is wrong. You have to be able to point out evil where it happens, when it happens.

18:58 for the democracy. Stone told Stahl that while he was having trouble getting Platoon made, he was offered the script for Top Gun, a major hit in 1986, which romanticized the life of Navy pilots in the military recruiting stations that were set up outside the theaters where it was being screened. The Pentagon had donated F-14s for making Top Gun, which it praised.

19:27 for helping to completely rehabilitate the military image after it had been savaged by the Vietnam War. In 2018, the Pentagon signed a contract with the producers of Top Gun Remake, scheduled for release the year this article was written, that allowed it to weave in key talking points, oversee the script, and required official screening before it was released.

19:56 So Top Gun Maverick was screened by all of the same apparatus. And weirdly enough, we just watched it play out in real life. So what you're seeing here is the people that orchestrate these events, i.e. the CIA, is crafting ahead of time the events and feeding them to you in movies.

20:23 The original Top Gun was directed by the late Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Brockheimer, who went on to produce Black Hawk Down, a recreation of the ambush of U.S. soldiers in Somalia. Oliver Stone called Black Hawk Down a nonsense movie. It was a whitewashing of military corruption. After days of negotiation with Brockheimer, Secretary of Defense William Cohen donated equipment for the film.

20:53 and the script was changed from the original to create heroes of U.S. soldiers, even though the intervention was widely considered, as Stone put it, a mess. According to Stahl, the Pentagon and the CIA was the equivalent to the Godfather. They decide what films get made and what films get shelved, and they buy off filmmakers by promising them access to all of the Pentagon and the CIA toys. In the 1980s,

21:24 Films that did not get made include a dramatization of the Iran-Contra affair and film about the reduction of Cold War tensions, which was substituted with Red Dawn, in which a group of high school students led by Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen organized themselves to fight a Soviet invasion in the U.S. A sequel had students organizing against

21:54 a fictitious North Korean invasion. And just going over the overview on the Red Dawn, again, I did not watch the movie. It makes these kids, high school students, it gives you the kind of feel that it's an Operation Gladio cell.

22:23 From 1989 to 2019, the Pentagon's Office of Entertainment was directed by Phil Straub, S-T-R-U-B, Straub, who worked closely with favored directors such as Brockheimer and Michael Bay, producers of Transformers, and helped promote sci-fi.

22:47 films where superheroes save civilization with military weapons in alliance with the U.S. military. Strub had a scene removed from The Wind Talkers in 2002, where U.S. Marines took out the gold teeth of Japanese soldiers they had killed as trophies, something described in E.B. Sledge's classic memoir, With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa.

23:17 That was done in 1981. Strub also made sure that the Tuskegee Airmen, produced in 1995, about black fighters in World War II, fighter pilots, presented the Army's top generals as non-racist. The only racists in the film were depicted as the bad apples. The U.S. Army subsidized TV series The Long Road... Hold on a minute. I've got to say this.

23:50 The whole premise of the Tuskegee Airmen was racism because they were all assigned to a single unit and not allowed to be integrated. And then they make a film indicating there was no racism when the entire program was racist. Sorry. Not sorry. The U.S. Army subsidized TV series The Long Road.

24:21 home. Meanwhile, depicted Thomas Young, a paralyzed Iraq veteran and peace activist, as a p-word and a douchebag, when according to members of his platoon, he was very well liked and considered fine. Young's portrayal was consistent with the degradation of anti-war veterans and activists in popular culture, which the Pentagon Office of Entertainment

24:51 was part of. Strub and his predecessor, Don Baroque, cultivated an academic hack, Lawrence Suid, and that's spelled S-U-I-D, to cover up the truth about what the Pentagon's entertainment office was doing. So let's look up Lawrence real quick. It's L-A-U, no, sorry, L-A-W-R-E-N-C-E-S-U-I-D.

25:23 And again, isn't that interesting? No page on him. There is a couple of, let's see what the U.S. Naval Institute says about him. Hollywood comes to Annapolis. When talkers send wrong message, he's a prolific writer too. Pearl Harbor bombed again. Pearl Harbor comes to the big screen. Yeah, so he's a propagandist.

26:02 Seward wrote the book Guts and Glory, the making of the American military image and film that was published in 2002, which for years stood as the definitive work on the Pentagon in Hollywood. When more independent scholars came along to challenge his interpretations, he savagely attacked them in academic journals and tried to ruin their career. You know, almost like he's a CIA asset. Chase Brandon.

26:32 the CIA's entertainment industry liaison from 1996 to 2007, and first cousin of actor Tommy Lee Jones, keep it in the family, was thought to be the prototype for Robert De Niro's character Conrad Breen in Wag the Dog. Breen was a CIA spin doctor who manufactures fictional wars in Albania to displace attention from a presidential sex scandal.

27:02 So we create wars to divert attention from here to over here. You know, almost like the Iraq war, when Operation Gladio was getting exposed, the CIA tells Saddam Hussein, as well as the State Department, that they're fine to invade the same day that the Prime Minister of Italy is disclosing Operation Gladio to the Congress there. We're going to go and allow Iraq.

27:32 to invade Kuwait so they can look over here and not over there. Patterns, patterns, everywhere patterns. Okay, so let's look at Chase Brandon. Because Chase Brandon is the guy that I found first that brought all of this to my attention. In an article on a website called Spy Culture, there is an article that's called Decoding

28:02 Chase Brandon, CIA entertainment liaison. He was the first guy that I found to find all of the rest of this stuff. Chase Brandon was the CIA's first entertainment liaison officer working in the entertainment industry for over a decade from 1996. Brandon helped produce over a dozen films and a similar number of TV shows and more than any other individual helped set up the permanent CIA network inside of Hollywood.

28:33 His website, ChaseBrandon.com, is a bit of a labyrinth, but used in the right way, it's a treasure trove of information and evidence on the relationship between the CIA and Hollywood. It even presents the possibility that Brandon was involved in making Wag the Dog. Very little known is about his career in the CIA before he was appointed their entertainment liaison. Brandon's site says that he worked over 40 years.

29:03 for different institutions in the U.S. intelligence arena, the military and law enforcement. He is one of those guys that they inserted into the U.S. police forces. He also allegedly was inside the FBI and the State Department, if you do the research.

29:34 He is one of those people, just like Senglub, who was wearing a military uniform, but basically was consumed by the CIA doing CIA missions. Even running CIA front companies and entities like the World Anti-Communist League. We just talked about it. My mind's blank. But Senglub shows up everywhere.

30:03 Um, we know that he was a CIA for around 25 years working primarily on overseas covert operations, i.e. Operation Gladio. So they take the guy that's actually out there doing these events and put him in Hollywood to make sure they say only what they want you to know. Here's a quote from his site.

30:32 has worked for over 40 years in the U.S. intelligence community, Department of Defense, federal and state law enforcement agencies, as a specialist in classic espionage operations and covert paramilitary activities. He has lived and traveled abroad in over 70 countries. And as a senior ops officer, he has served a number of times as the chief

31:03 or deputy of field agencies at different CIA outposts. This is another quote. For 25 years, he served the agency's elite clandestine service, Operation Gladio, as an undercover covert operation officer carrying out foreign assignments involving international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking, and weapons trafficking. This is the guy they're going to put in Hollywood.

31:34 He operated under a range of official and private sector covers, i.e. front companies, sometimes using alias names, physical disguises, and often elaborating with special operations components of foreign military, security, and law enforcement abroad. Though his site avoids this question, Brandon definitely served in Latin America. Sometime between joining the agency,

32:04 in the early 70s and becoming their entertainment liaison in the 1996. CIA's extremely bloody history of covert operations in that part of the world was so bad that it brought about their most damaging whistleblower, Phil Agee. It is likely that Brandon saw, experienced, and participated in those ugly operations, which we know as Operation Condor.

32:33 In the mid-90s, Brandon, like a lot of government employees, was thinking of retiring from what is laughably called public service. The agency were scouting around for a suitable agent to head up their new efforts in Hollywood. Their attempts to produce the classified files of the CIA in 1994 and 1995 had gone badly wrong, and they needed a more subtle approach. While we cannot be sure, it is safe to assume

33:02 that Brandon was partly chosen due to his having experience in psychological warfare operations. In other words, using media as part of the PsyOps. Another useful factor is that Brandon's first cousin, Tommy Lee Jones, who played CIA contract agent, Clay Bertrand, the only man ever put on trial for the assassination of JFK.

33:36 I'm sure that's a coincidence. So Brandon put off his retirement for what turned out to be a decade of hugely successful television and Hollywood productions. Chase is by far their longest serving officer in this role. His replacement, Paul Barry, B-A-R-R-Y, lasted for only a couple of years before moving on. For several years before and after the turn of the millennium,

34:06 9-11 and the new world that emerged in its wake, Chase Brandon was pursuing the CIA's propaganda objectives in Hollywood. He finally retired in 2007, apparently taking with him all of the records of what he had been doing. Since then, he has continued to work as a technical consultant to Hollywood and has published his novel, The Crypto's Conundrum, which is a sci-fi political conspiracy theory.

34:36 thriller about CIA's cover-up of Roswell's UFO crash. So it goes on and it talks about some of the different movies, but we're going to go back to the original article. So that's who Chase Brandon is. A 40-year career veteran with experience in special ops and psychological operations, Brandon wrote most of the script for the 2003 film The Recruit.

35:07 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 the CIA. Alias' writers worked with Brandon, who helped educate them on tradecraft.

35:38 Brandon's office also altered the script of the 2000 comedy Meet the Parents, which featured Robert De Niro as a CIA agent whose daughter had married a goofball named Ben Stiller. When Stiller's character enters De Niro's workspace in the original script, he finds CIA torture manuals. However, the script was changed to show Stiller finding only pictures of De Niro's characters.

36:07 meeting people like Bill Clinton. Another film that Brandon helped shape was Charlie Wilson's War, released in 2007, which heroized the CIA for defeating the evil commies in Afghanistan, which we know, if you've been following me, was instigated by the CIA. CIA agent Milt Bearden served as one of the film's consul.

36:38 consultants as well. Brandon further worked as a technical advisor and consultant for action movies that made the CIA seem exciting and noble. Mission Impossible 3, released in 2006, Enemy of the State, 1998, The Bourne Identity in 2002, and The Sum of All Fears, 2002.

37:06 He additionally provided true-to-life storylines for TV series The Agency, including ones focused on the drone assassinations of a rogue Pakistani general. A rogue Pakistani general. And another one about an anthrax attack in Washington, D.C., which was originally scheduled to release the very day of the actual anthrax.

37:35 attack on Washington, D.C., which we know was also part, at least I do, the entire thing was a false flag. And again, it was used as the justification to immunize those of us who was vaccine injured from the anthrax vaccination, as well as had huge implications internationally.

38:07 Yet another film Brandon helped influence was The Good Shepherd, released in 2006, directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, which, while portraying CIA misdeeds, focuses largely on their impact on the personal lives of CIA agents as opposed to the people that were actually affected. We're trying to make it personal so you have empathy for the CIA people.

38:37 and not the people that they're attacking. Psychological operations. The Good Shepherd further distorted history by making it seem like the agency supported denazification when it recruited the Nazis for the Cold War. It also was depicting the head of the CIA being forced to resign because of his personal business interest in Guatemala, which prompted the 1954 coup.

39:07 And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA operation to overthrow the government of Guatemala. Also depicting the CIA's failure to overthrow the Castro government.

39:37 as the result of the Cubans being tipped off by Soviet intelligence. So, after the 9-11 attacks, the CIA supported Fox's 24, which advanced the idea that torture during interrogation was fine. The CIA subsequently supported the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty, dramatizing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a CIA asset.

40:08 which went too far even for rabid war hawks like John McCain, who repudiated torture following his own, I love the way the author says that, alleged experience of torture in Vietnam. The CIA additionally supported the Emmy Award winning Showtime series Homeland, which if you guys recall, Barack Obama said that was his favorite show.

40:37 It depicted Muslims as overwhelmingly sadistic, barbaric, and morally bankrupt, according to The New Yorker, and drone strikes and targeted killings was morally just because of how bad those people were. Most recently, the CIA collaborated in the production of the Jack Ryan series, a spinoff on military enthusiast Tom Clancy's novels that's available on Amazon Prime. In one episode,

41:07 Ryan, played by John Krasinski from The Office, plots to overthrow a tyrannical leader in Venezuela. Huh, that couldn't possibly happen. Just several times. Who Ryan helps replace with an enlightened pro-democratic reformer. The latter is a stand-in for America's picked future leader of Venezuela, Juan Waldo.

41:41 who actually was a fascist and had led violent protests against the government of Venezuela. Theaters of War ends by pointing out that the U.S. has well-established laws against propaganda, which the CIA and Pentagon has obviously violated.

42:04 or societies are greater than most people realize. The manipulation of Hollywood drives support for the U.S. military, the CIA interventions, and have caused humanitarian catastrophes and reinforced a nativist, imperialist, and often demented worldview that lies at the root of repeated foreign policy disasters. So we just started watching the Jack Ryan series. So War Hamster.

42:36 We will definitely have to talk about what your opinion is on that since I know you know your history and your assessment knowing that the storylines have been crafted with CIA influence. So what am I reading from? I am reading from an article from CovertActionMagazine.com that was written.

43:06 Let me get back up to the top. By Jeremy Kuzmarov, K-U-Z-M-A-R-O-V. That was published March 27, 2022. So there you have it. I just wanted to put this out there since it is back in the news with the WikiLeaks post that I tagged on to and reposted so that you guys can go.

43:35 listen to Julian Assange basically tell you the Reader's Digest version of what I just told you, but I wanted to collaborate or corroborate what he was saying in his five-minute video. There is a ton of information about the CIA operating in Hollywood, both in the film industry as well as television, which is by law illegal.

44:05 They are running psychological operations on us. Yeah. So not a long show on this topic. I am going to be coming back on with Bridget to expose what I found on the Ted Cruz dig that I just recently did in a couple of hours.

44:30 Just wanted to get this out there so you guys can go back now and listen if you haven't already to Julian Assange. It's a WikiLeaks post and it's a short video. I highly encourage everybody to go get it and listen to it because you just heard the names behind it. And why is that important?

44:54 Naming names is so important because when you start tracking these people, they show up time and time and time again in this Operation Gladio arena. These are not isolated incidents. Most of what we know is being crafted around us, which is why, knowing all of this, I made the suggestion that we are all living in a hologram.

45:23 Literally anything that you reach out and touch is being crafted for us and does not reflect reality. So anyway, take care. We'll be back in a couple of hours to talk about Ted Cruz. See you then.

Entities here

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Claims made here

Brandon Strada funded Charlie Wilson's War book_quoted ▶ 36:07

“meeting people like Bill Clinton. Another film that Brandon helped shape was Charlie Wilson's War, released in 2007, which heroized the CIA for defeating the evil commies in Afghanistan, which we know…”

CIA funded Charlie Wilson's War book_quoted ▶ 36:07

Milt Bearden member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 36:07

Brandon Strada funded Mission Impossible 3 book_quoted ▶ 36:38

“consultants as well. Brandon further worked as a technical advisor and consultant for action movies that made the CIA seem exciting and noble. Mission Impossible 3, released in 2006, Enemy of the Stat…”

Brandon Strada funded Enemy of the State book_quoted ▶ 36:38

Brandon Strada funded The Bourne Identity book_quoted ▶ 36:38

Brandon Strada funded The Sum of All Fears book_quoted ▶ 36:38

Brandon Strada funded The Agency book_quoted ▶ 37:06

“He additionally provided true-to-life storylines for TV series The Agency, including ones focused on the drone assassinations of a rogue Pakistani general. A rogue Pakistani general. And another one a…”

Brandon Strada funded The Good Shepherd book_quoted ▶ 38:07

“Yet another film Brandon helped influence was The Good Shepherd, released in 2006, directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon, which, while portraying CIA misdeeds, focuses largely on their im…”

Allen Dulles member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 39:07

“And of course, we know the CIA director did not resign. And that's Alan Dulles. And he was directly tied to that because of the representation of United Fruit, who was behind instigating that CIA oper…”

United Fruit Company funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 39:07

CIA funded 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état book_quoted ▶ 39:07

CIA attempted_coup_against Fidel Castro book_quoted ▶ 39:07

Saudi intelligence spied_on CIA book_quoted ▶ 39:37

“as the result of the Cubans being tipped off by Soviet intelligence. So, after the 9-11 attacks, the CIA supported Fox's 24, which advanced the idea that torture during interrogation was fine. The CIA…”

CIA funded Zero Dark Thirty book_quoted ▶ 39:37

Osama bin Laden member_of CIA book_quoted ▶ 39:37

CIA funded Homeland book_quoted ▶ 40:08

“which went too far even for rabid war hawks like John McCain, who repudiated torture following his own, I love the way the author says that, alleged experience of torture in Vietnam. The CIA additiona…”

CIA funded Jack Ryan book_quoted ▶ 40:37

“It depicted Muslims as overwhelmingly sadistic, barbaric, and morally bankrupt, according to The New Yorker, and drone strikes and targeted killings was morally just because of how bad those people we…”

CIA funded Pentagon book_quoted ▶ 41:41

“who actually was a fascist and had led violent protests against the government of Venezuela. Theaters of War ends by pointing out that the U.S. has well-established laws against propaganda, which the …”