Imagine a world where Nicholas Cage plays himself and is recruited by the CIA to spy on a drug kingpin,...

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Over a hundred governments across the world have a culture ministry – though they often go by other names. These...

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Well, it’s here. The least-needed film in cinematic history, and therefore likely the box office smash of 2022. In this...

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In the summer of 2020 a former CIA officer published a book with the overt aim of countering the tide...

The post Subscribercast #64 – The CIA and Fake News first appeared on Spy Culture.

Black operations make the world go round, and have become the subject of major movies and TV, from Jack Ryan...

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Can you make an environmentalist movie with the help of the Pentagon? In this episode we answer this and other...

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Moonfall is the latest Roland Emmerich disaster movie, and while it isn’t as bad as Don’t Look Up, it isn’t...

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Roger Ailes founded and ran Fox News for the first 20 years of its existence, making it the highest rated...

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The invasion of Iraq has been called the greatest intelligence failure of all time. This is – of course –...

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Perhaps unavoidably, in this month’s subscriber-only podcast we discuss the war in Ukraine – what led up to this point,...

The post Subscribercast #62 – Cultural Warfare Over Ukraine, and the Polandistan Option first appeared on Spy Culture.