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We're checking out Alan Rudolph's first and only documentary feature, following the Los Angeles stop of the Timothy Leary // G. Gordon Liddy debate tour. We get into the current state of the world, where we're at now, before we jump into the deep end on the FBI, CIA, Nixon, MKultra, watergate, Iran Contra, counterculture movements, and all of that jazz. Plus we learn that Gordon Liddy was one crazy ass white boy.

You can watch Return Engagement right here!

Articles mentioned, further reading, etc.

AFI CATALOG | Return Engagement

Alan Rudolph interviews in Verité

Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House | Peter Dale Scott

Lost' films found 3: Alan Rudolph's 'Return Engagement' | Media Funhouse

Operation Mind Control - Researcher's Edition | Walter Bowart

Timothy Leary | Harvard Dept. of Psychology

The Watergate Files

The Timothy Leary Project | Jennifer Ulrich

White hand society : the psychedelic partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg | Peter Conners