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.
Another of my recent FOIA requests got a response yesterday, this one from the US Marshals Service (USMS). I had…
Shortly after WW2 the US Department of Defense began formally involving themselves in Hollywood. Since then they have been involved…
The 2012 movie Battleship is a shameless rip-off of the recently reworked Transformers film franchise and like the Transformers films…
Eric Johnston (1896-1963) was an American businessman, president of both the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Chamber…
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…
