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ClandesTime 284 - Conspiracy Theories: Laurel Canyon
Laurel Canyon nestles in the Hollywood Hills, between the Sunset Strip and Studio City. In this episode I review the book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream by Dave McGowan. We look at his central theory – that the hippy rock n roll scene was manufactured by the US government – fact check some of his claims, especially concerning the…
Spy Culture on The Rest is Entertainment
Some of you may be familiar with The Rest is Entertainment, a podcast devoted to news, interesting stories and unusual perspectives on the entertainment business. On their most recent episode they discussed how MI6 have joined Instagram, and Spy Culture got a shout out from Marine Hyde, one of the hosts. Marina and Richard Osman also discussed the BBC show Spooks (perhaps the best spy TV series…
ClandesTime 283 – 9/11: The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark
The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark was the last great book on the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. In this episode I review the book and analyse some of the events and people it describes, before outlining the only ‘conspiracy theory’ about 9/11 that makes any sense to me. In keeping with the last couple of episodes looking back at major terrorist attacks I felt inspired to do this long-overdue…
Subscribercast #100 - The Latest in the CIA and Hollywood
The rise of former CIA officers working as consultants to the film and TV business is one of the cultural trends of the 21st century. In this subscribercast we look at three recent ex-CIA-supported productions: G20 and Back in Action, two films on which former CIA officer David Chasteen worked as a technical advisor, and Classified, a TV series co-produced by Spycraft Entertainment’s John Sipher…
The CIA and Hollywood: A Timeline
When I started Spy Culture over ten years ago one of my main aims was to end up writing a book on the CIA and Hollywood. Having written three books already I am unsure if I will find the time and impetus to write Langleywood: The CIA and Hollywood’s Movie Machine. In case that never happens I have compiled the essence of my research into this timeline, with open sources. It constitutes the…
Subscribercast #99 - Godzilla vs Godzilla Minus One
Godzilla movies vary enormously, from goofy to serious, from smart to utterly moronic. In this subscribercast we look at the 2014 Godzilla that launched Legendary’s Monsterverse and compare it to the more recent Godzilla Minus One, a Toho production. The former was supported by the DOD and inverts Godzilla lore, making nuclear weapons the solution to the monster problem rather than the cause of…
CIA Ops Center Monitored Media Coverage of Sean Penn El Chapo Story
A document recently made available by the CIA shows that an unnamed Ops Center was monitoring news media coverage of the unfolding Sean Penn El Chapo Guzman story in early 2016. While theories continue to circulate about the extent of Penn’s awareness that he was helping Mexican and US authorities track down the drug lord, the official line remains that he played an unwitting role. The story…
ClandesTime 282 - The 7/7 London Bombings Revisited
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London Bombings, a terrorist mass murder that I investigated for many years. In this episode we review a recent BBC documentary series about the bombings and associated events, showing how the official story has been changed, inverted and retconned once more. I discuss how the documentary actually undermines the suicide bomber narrative while…
ClandesTime 281 - Conspiracy Theories: The Lockerbie Bombing
The Lockerbie bombing, which brought down Pan Am 103 and killed 270 people, is one of the most disturbing events in modern British history. In this episode we look at the bombing itself, the aftermath and criminal investigation, the bizarre pivot from suspecting Iranian-backed Palestinians to blaming Gaddafi’s Libyans, the absurd trial and some of the theories around what actually happened. We…
Fun with FOIA: The Latest Documents from the LAPD, DEA and CBP
Customs and Border Protection in Hollywood After more than six years the Customs and Border Protection branch of the Department of Homeland Security sent me a new list of support film and TV productions. Long-term readers may recall that I posted a CBP list way back when, but a comparison with the second list is quite revealing. List One Supported Films/Theaterical Documentaries: The Terminal…
Subscribercast #98 - Zero Day
Zero Day is the latest in CIA-supported Netflix spy dramas, only this time it’s cyberterrorism rather than Arab hijackers or Russian assassins who pose the threat. In this subscriber-only podcast we examine Zero Day, and what it might be saying about the Mueller investigation, the 9/11 Commission, torture and the loss of trust in the political system. I also speculate about what would happen if…
Hollywood vs The Pentagon - Tom Secker on DoubleThink
I recently joined Malcolm Critcher of This Is Propaganda on his DoubleThink podcast, to discuss the conflicts and collaborations between Hollywood and the Pentagon. Hollywood and The Pentagon with Tom Secker by Josh Belhumeur Read on Substack
Subscribercast #97 - The Fugitive
I offer some thoughts on the 90s thriller The Fugitive, honing in on the Tommy Lee Jones character and his latent fascism and disdain for constitutional law. I also examine why this movie is a success both as a piece of entertainment but also as propaganda for the US Marshals. I round off with a little dialectical analysis of the relationship between Samuel Gerard and Dr Richard Kimble. This…
Subscribercast #96 - The Recruit Season Two
We check in with the recently-released season two of Netflix’s The Recruit, a show supported by the CIA, DOD and the State Department. We look at the hallmarks of CIA input on the script, the inevitable Russians and the true-life origins of the plotline whereby the CIA create their own cryptocurrency. I discuss the investigations into the CIA’s bulk data collection and how their findings fit…
NASA Rejected Invaders from Mars Remake Due to Military Script Changes
The 1986 Cannon Films version of Invaders from Mars is one of the weirder Golan and Globus films, and in my opinion one of their better movies. Curiously, for a schlocky 1980s UFO flick, it was supported by the DOD and US Marine Corps but turned down by NASA, even though NASA’s involvement was at the suggestion of the US military. Golan and Globus Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus were cousins who…
ClandesTime 279 - Civil Servants on the Silver Screen
How are government employees portrayed in popular movies? In this episode we review Civil Servants on the Silver Screen, an academic study and analysis of this very question. We look at the flawed methodology of the book and the underlying assumptions and biases of the author, including the absence of any reference to government entertainment liaison offices. I ask whether films examined in this…
The Government and Hollywood - Tom Secker on I Protest with Don Jeffries
I joined Don Jeffries on his I Protest podcast for a broad conversation on government influence in Hollywood, the decline of creativity in the movie industry, the normalising of conspiracy themes and theories as well as numerous films and TV shows (including Flashpoint, Stranger Things, The Infiltrator, Sum of All Fears, Scorpio, Civil War and The Day the Earth Stood Still) that form part of this…