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Get Smart: A Look at the Current Relationship between Hollywood and the CIA

2009; Routledge; Volume: 29; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/01439680902890704

1465-3451

Tricia Jenkins,

Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. Paul Barry, Interview, CIA Headquarters, March 3, 2008. 2. David Robb, Operation Hollywood: how the Pentagon shapes and censors the movies (Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2004). 3. Ibid., 150. 4. Tony and Jonna Mendez, Interview, Mendezes’ home, March 4, 2008. 5. Qtd. in Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts, The CIA has a New Man on a Special Mission—to Hollywood, Washington Post, June 5, 2007, p. C3. 6. This was confirmed by both Barry and the Mendezes, and the Internet Movie Database credits Brandon as the technical consultant on two films currently in pre-production: Fard Ayn (2009) and Sandstorm (2009). 7. George Tenet, Does America Need the CIA?, Gerald R. Ford Library, November 19, 1997, CIA.gov, https://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/1997/dci_speech_111997.html. 8. Lewis Lapham, The Boys Next Door, Harper's Magazine 303.1814 (July 2001), p. 10+. 9. Tom Raum, CIA Recruiting Drive Paying Off, Federation of American Scientists, January 17, 2000, http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2000/01/ap011700.html. 10. Robert Gates, Internal Memorandum on the Task Force for Greater Openness, Winter 1991, http://www.cia-on-campus.org/foia/pa01.html. 11. Ibid., Doc 2, 5. 12. Ibid., Doc. 2, 7–8. 13. Ibid. 14. Laura DiBenedetto-Kenyon, The CSI Factor, Government Video, Apr. 29, 2005, http://governmentvideo.com/articles/publish/article_608.shtml. 15. Because of limited space, I have restricted my discussion of Hollywood–CIA ventures to those that actually made it to the viewing public. At least two of the memorandums that were exchanged between the CIA and 20th Century Fox Television, however, are available online through the CIA's website and provide an interesting look into the thought process that guided the CIA's early dealings with the television industry. These documents, dated October 3, 1995 and April 16, 1996, can be found at http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs.asp and are titled ‘CIA Television Series Project’ and ‘CIA Television Series.’ 16. Steve Sailer, The Recruit, United Press International, January 30, 2003. 17. Ken Tucker, Spy vs. Spy, Entertainment Weekly, 2001, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,253293,00.html. 18. Qtd. in Wesley Britton, Spy Television (Westport, CT, Praeger, 2005), 245. 19. Rebecca Murray, Roger Birnbaum and Jeff Apple Talk About ‘The Recruit,’ About.com: Hollywood Movies, http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aatherecruitintb.htm. 20. Ibid. 21. Sailer. 22. Spy School: Inside the CIA's Training Program, The Recruit, Perf. Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, DVD Bonus Material, 2003. 23. Robb, 365–366. 24. Ibid., 47–48. 25. It should be pointed out, however, that Barry does not just work with Hollywood; he also meets with authors, documentary film-makers and academics (including this author) to provide them with information about the Central Intelligence Agency, but again, he has the power to answer these questions in a way that favorably represents the agency. 26. Robert Post, Interview by Tricia Jenkins, Phone, April 16, 2008. 27. Cameras are Being Turned on a Once-Shy Spy Agency, New York Times, May 6, 2001, http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2001/05/nyt050601.html. 28. Hardest-Working Actor of the Season: the C.I.A, New York Times, September 2, 2001, http://www.paulabernstein.com/portfolio/features/features1.html. 29. Jeff Cohen, The Agency on CBS: Right Time but Wrong Show, Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2001, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2464. 30. David Barstow, Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand, New York Times, April 20, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp. 31. Patrick Luce, Retired CIA agent/author Milton Bearden talks The Good Shepherd, Monsters&Critics, http://www.monstersandcritics.com/dvd/features/article_1285004.php.