The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
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What’s your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can’t protect its own spies? A rogue organization prone to covert operations and assassinations? Or a dedicated public service that advances the interests of the United States? Astute TV and movie viewers may have noticed that the CIA’s image in popular media has spanned this entire range, with a decided shift to more positive portrayals in recent years. But what very few people know is that the Central Intelligence Agency has been actively engaged in shaping the content of film and television, especially since it established an entertainment industry liaison program in the mid-1990s.
The CIA in Hollywood offers the first full-scale investigation of the relationship between the Agency and the film and television industries. Tricia Jenkins draws on numerous interviews with the CIA’s public affairs staff, operations officers, and historians, as well as with Hollywood technical consultants, producers, and screenwriters who have worked with the Agency, to uncover the nature of the CIA’s role in Hollywood. In particular, she delves into the Agency’s and its officers’ involvement in the production of The Agency, In the Company of Spies, Alias, The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Syriana, The Good Shepherd, and more. Her research reveals the significant influence that the CIA now wields in Hollywood and raises important and troubling questions about the ethics and legality of a government agency using popular media to manipulate its public image.
The book is published by University of Texas Press.
K. E Hart –
Shows How CIA Uses Hollywood to Spread their Propaganda
This is a very comprehensive book that shows exactly how the CIA use their Public Affairs Office to try and make sure that only favorable views of the CIA are put in movies and television. I wish she had put in brought up the question of Hollywood’s complicity in the CIA’s terrible actions of murder, torture, and toppling democracies around the world.
Amazon Customer –
Coulda Been Thicker
I was just looking something closer to an inch Thick.Had to add multiple pieces of cardboard for writing.
rozie –
Boring
Dull, dull, dull.
M. Smith –
Historical and Important
Academic book that shows the CIAs relationship with Hollywood.
Kay Merkel Boruff –
THe CIA in Hollywood
Tricia, as a fellow “TCU frog,” I’m eager to read your book. I lived in Viet-Nam 68-70 and was married to an Air Ameirca pilot killed flying in Laos 18 Feb 70. The New York Times in Frankfurt, Germany, as I flew home to bury Jon, read: CIA PILOT KILLED: FIRST CASUALTY PLAIN OF JARS. I too have been in Langley. Interesting. I’m curious why you didn’t include HOMELAND in your book. It’s very truthful–as true as anything you’ll find out about the CIA. It took two years for me to receive Jon’s files. And probably 20 years to learn the truth of Benghazi. Remember fiction is truer than NF. Enjoy the journey…on the “write” track.