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Theaters of Command Trailer

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Everyone knows truth is the first casualty of war – but in a modern world where America’s wars know no…

8th June 2020

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ABC’s The Rookie: Made by the LAPD

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In this video essay I reveal the inner workings of the LAPD’s Hollywood office (the Entertainment Trademark Unit), in particular…

25th May 2020

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How the Pentagon Rewrote Contact

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The 1997 sci-fi epic Contact is a fine movie, an unusually profound and intelligent story about contact with alien life….

24th March 2020

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Is David Schwimmer’s ‘Intelligence’ Propaganda for GCHQ?

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I tried something a bit different to my usual approach – a lighthearted, daft-minded video critique of the new Sky…

11th March 2020

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Jack Ryan, the CIA and Venezuela

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A video essay presenting my breakdown of Amazon’s Jack Ryan, including how the CIA, DOD and other US government…

18th November 2019

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About Spy Culture

SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.

Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, The Express, Russia Today, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Harpers, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, Gli Occhi Della Guerra, TechDirt and elsewhere.

Tom lives in Yorkshire and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.

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