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Al Pacino as Leon Panetta?

By Tom SeckerDocuments

On May 3rd 2011, the day after the raid that supposedly killed Osama Bin Laden, CIA director Leon Panetta suggested…

16th March 2015

Snowden on the Big Screen – Demanufacturing Consent

By Tom SeckerBlog

Guillermo Jimenez of Demanufacturing Consent on BFP and Traces of Reality and I talked about the forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of the…

27th May 2014

CIA memo on rewriting Zero Dark Thirty script

By Tom SeckerDocuments, Features

We already knew that the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs was integrally involved in the production of Zero Dark Thirty,…

7th May 2013

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

By Tom SeckerBlog, Features

The Oscar nominations have been announced and despite much hope on this side of the pond there is no place…

15th January 2013

Zero Dark Thirty – the CIA and DOD files

By Tom SeckerDocuments

The film Zero Dark Thirty about the ‘Bin Laden raid’ in Abbottabad in May 2011 enjoyed an unprecedented degree of…

14th January 2013

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