I recently obtained 50 pages of documents from the CIA on the support they provided to Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. In this investigation for Shadowproof I outline how the relationship between Bay and the Agency started well, how they leaned on Bay to remove ‘unauthorized information’ from the script and where it all went wrong, resulting in the CIA badmouthing the film when it was released. As the only film about one of the most contentious and controversial events during the Obama administrations, 13 Hours may not be a good movie, but it’s an important one.
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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, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.
Tom lives on the Lancashire coast 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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