Files on government involvement in popular culture, from the CIA in Hollywood to the Pentagon and reality TV. I obtained these documents via FOIA requests and from various archives.
The military-Marvel relationship has waxed and waned over the years, but 2019’s Captain Marvel was a high point – a…
The Office of War Information’s Bureau of Motion Pictures was the US government’s first formal office for liaising with Hollywood…
Steven Spielberg’s 2005 alien invasion adventure War of the Worlds helped kick off the recent string of military-supported extraterrestrial war…
The story of how an FBI assistant director for public affairs wrote to Ruthless Records to complaint about Straight Outta…
There I was, innocently digging through some 1970s entertainment liaison office reports from the US Marine Corps when all of…
Jerry Bruckheimer has a long history of working with the Pentagon, going all the way back to Top Gun, but…
75 years ago this week, President Harry Truman signed into law the National Security Act, which brought into being the…
In September 2018 the US Air Force ran a tour of Special Operations Command for a dozen Hollywood bigshots. The…
In 2015, legendary TV producer Dick Wolf approached the FBI about developing scripted and unscripted products based around the Bureau. …
While digging into the production of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I contacted the Croatian Ministry of Culture for…
Among the numerous agencies who vetted and reviewed the script for the 1994 film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Clear and…
One of the recurring propaganda techniques identified by Roger Stahl in Theaters of War is that you can remediate military…
