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.
Good Guys Wear Black is one of very few movies to explicitly discuss the Phoenix Program – a Vietnam-era behind…
In 2003 one of the longest-running shows on American TV debuted: NCIS. As previously detailed on this site, the more…
Via Muckrock’s latest newsletter comes an interesting release – emails on the CIA’s twitter account, deciding what their first tweet…
In early 1997 the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen Charles Krulak issued an order authorising the use of video…
The new season of Amazon’s Jack Ryan just came out, and much like previous seasons it benefited from large scale…
Anyone who has followed the CIA’s relationship with the entertainment business will be familiar with the 2003 thriller The Recruit. …
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…
