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ClandesTime 213 – Homeland Security in Hollywood (and the Boston Bombing)

By Tom SeckerFeatures, Podcast

The Department of Homeland Security is one of the biggest agencies of the US government, and has a highly active…

29th November 2020

ClandesTime 207 – Hidden Agenda vs ‘71

By Tom SeckerPodcast

There are dozens of films about the ‘Troubles’ but very few of them engage with the covert operations run by…

19th July 2020

Subscribercast #42 – Systemic Racism and Cop Shows

By Tom SeckerPodcast

How much responsibility does the TV crime genre have for police racism, brutality and corruption? On this month’s subscriber-only podcast…

14th June 2020

ABC’s The Rookie: Made by the LAPD

By Tom SeckerVideos

In this video essay I reveal the inner workings of the LAPD’s Hollywood office (the Entertainment Trademark Unit), in particular…

25th May 2020

ClandesTime 203 – Psychopaths and the Copycat Effect

By Tom SeckerPodcast

‘Movies don’t create psychos, movies make psychos more creative.’ That is a quote from the 1996 horror-comedy Scream, but it…

12th April 2020

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SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.

Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, The Express, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Harpers, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, Gli Occhi Della Guerra, TechDirt and elsewhere.

Tom lives in Yorkshire and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.

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