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.
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…
A recent ruling by the High Court has established that the behaviour of fictional spy James Bond is now an…
In October 2000 the actor Dean Cain, well known for playing Superman in the TV version (Lois and Clarke in…
In 1997 actor Patrick Stewart paid a visit to CIA headquarters in Langley. The edition of What’s News at CIA…
In 1999 Showtime/Paramount Network Television produced a made-for-TV film about a CIA agent called In the Company of Spies. It…
In 2004 the CIA used the popular TV actress and star of CIA drama Alias Jennifer Garner in a recruitment…
The film Zero Dark Thirty about the ‘Bin Laden raid’ in Abbottabad in May 2011 enjoyed an unprecedented degree of…
The FBI recently released their file on popular author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury. Like so many involved in popular culture…
In 1988 Cosgrove-Meurer Productions were producing a TV mini-series about the notorious Jack the Ripper murders of exactly 100 years…
