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 1995 nuclear submarine mutiny thriller Crimson Tide was rejected by the US Navy, for fairly obvious reasons (the whole…
In the first of a series of releases, the FBI sent me some of their historical files on working with…
Something I recently stumbled on while researching the 2011 terrorism sci-fi thriller Source Code is a batch of contracts between…
All the waves made by Don’t Look Up have missed one key landmark – the Pentagon supported the movie. Unlike…
A story doing the rounds on entertainment industry websites in the last couple of days revealed that Black Panther director…
While looking through the latest post by the National Security Archive – on the Pentagon’s efforts to exempt their operations…
Until a few weeks ago, very few people had heard of Jonathan and Diana Toebbe but now they’re finding themselves…
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is a soulless, consciousless dumpster fire that uses shock value to cover for a plethora…
According to legend, Joe Stalin hated John Wayne and tried on several occasions to have the leading man killed. This…
The 1996 Olympic Park bombing is one of the most shameful episodes in the FBI’s history, as they spent months…
The CIA’s involvement in Argo is obvious from simply watching the movie – they shot several sequences at Langley, after…
One frequent question I get asked is how the state sponsorship of popular culture (especially movies and TV) works in…
