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Learning to say no (1989)
About this film
"When the United States entered World War I in 1917, the U.S. Chief of Staff, General Peyton March, discovered that his entire intelligence department consisted of two officers and two clerks. "Seventy years later, the United States has created a vast intelligence empire, both foreign and domestic, supported by billions of dollars and layer upon layer of government. It is a secret empire that serves as America's eyes and ears, its shield, and sometimes its sword. But in its evolution, the U.S. intelligence community now has the potential of threatening the very principles it was created to defend. "SECRET INTELLIGENCE, a four part documentary series, explores the constant tension between secrecy and democracy for the United States. This series, for the first time, provides American television viewers with a detailed and in-depth understanding of the reasons why the United States established the FBI, CIA, and National Security Agency. In doing so, viewers chart these agencies' successes as well as their failures, from Pearl Harbor through the Iran-Contra affair. It attempts to tell these stories in a fair and balanced way, as recognized by Newsday: 'The series makes clear the danger…
Directors & creators
KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Security Agency, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Peyton March, J. Edgar Hoover, Eugenio Martinez, Tad Szulc, Everett Hanel, John Roselli, Sam Giancana, Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation Mongoose, Palmer Raids, Iran-Contra affair, covert operations, political assassination, Cold War espionage
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