first earth battallion

The CIA & Hollywood – The Men Who Stare at Goats: Jay w/Tom Secker, Pearse Redmond

From Tom Secker’s site, SpyCulture.com (and by extension, Pearse’s site Porkin’s Policy Review): “Jay Dyer joins us for this episode where we analyse the 2009 comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats, loosely based on Jon Ronson’s book of the same name.  It tells the story of a journalist who is inducted into the world of psychic soldiers during the Iraq war.  The movie goes on to explain some of the history behind the First Earth Battalion, an experimental Pentagon uni