How the Pentagon Rewrote Contact
The 1997 sci-fi epic Contact is a fine movie, an unusually profound and intelligent story about contact with alien life....
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How the Pentagon Rewrote Contact
The 1997 sci-fi epic Contact is a fine movie, an unusually profound and intelligent story about contact with alien life....
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Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
The post Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel first appeared on Spy Culture.
ClandesTime 196 – The Final Countdown
The Final Countdown is a classic of good bad cinema, featuring an aircraft carrier that goes through a wormhole and...
ClandesTime 196 – The Final Countdown
The Final Countdown is a classic of good bad cinema, featuring an aircraft carrier that goes through a wormhole and...
Subscriber Podcast #30 – Starship Troopers
On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I review one of my favourite films of all time – Starship Troopers. I discuss...
The King, the starlet and the CIA’s fixer in Hollywood
A recently released document from the JFK files has confirmed an old rumour: that the CIA helped arrange the affair between actress Susan Cabot and King Hussein of Jordan. The memo records how the man directly involved was the CIA’s on-the-ground fixer in Hollywood, Robert Maheu. The Affair Cabot was a well-known B-movie starlet who […](Read more...)
The Science and Entertainment Exchange – Tom Secker on PPR
Pearse invited me back onto Porkins Policy Radio to chat about my research into the little-known Science and Entertainment Exchange. We discussed how SEEX got started, their stated mission and aims and how they contrast sharply with what SEEX actually does, their ability to influence scripts and how the Pentagon are using SEEX due to […](Read more...)