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.
While searching around the US National Archives digital collections I came across a total of 20 US embassy cables from…
Recently released MI5 files at the British National Archives include one on Mary Marita Margaret Perigoe, the wife of a member…
The CIA’s online FOIA library or ‘electronic reading room’ contains some files linking former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Allen…
Just today I came across a 1943 memo from the OSS – the Office of Strategic Services who were in…
Following the death of the hugely successful author Tom Clancy I filed a series of FOIA requests with various US…
Shortly before the UK general election of June 1983 the Thatchergate scandal broke when a tape recording and an anonymous…
From 1941 to 1950 Matt Cvetic successfully infiltrated and spied on the Communist Party of the United States on behalf…
In the spring of 1994 then Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey launched a project aimed at co-producing a TV…
As legend has it the night before the John F Kennedy assassination both Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK were reading…
Another edition of What’s News at CIA records how in early 1998 during the filming of Enemy of the State the…
We already knew that the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs was integrally involved in the production of Zero Dark Thirty,…
Argo, the recent Oscar-winning film directed by and starring Ben Affleck tells the story of the 1979-80 Canadian Caper used…
