The Company

I was researching Operation Gladio and James Jesus Angleton and came across this mini series called The Company on Youtube. You know, it's not bad at all. The character acting is good but the scripts don't suck and that goes a long way for me. There's a lot of love-in-the-CIA theme but somehow the actors transcend the obvious. Michael Keaton plays James Jesus Angleton in this dramatization though my favourite theme from around this time is the Cambridge homosexual double and triple agents without whom things would have gone far to straight forward given the string pullers of the intelligence agencies are extraordinarily venal. Regrettably most spies don't actually know that.

Rome and Birdcage Walk etc.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sly

I'm quite fussy about movies. It's somewhat hard for me to suspend disbelief and so for some reason I lucked out and can recommend Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Not because I think it's perfectly faithful to the espionage business but because it gets the 70's down pat and that's a lot harder to do than is evident from the outside.  I mentioned I enjoyed this on Facebook and a few people agreed so I'm recommending it to you.

John Hurt and Gary Oldman? You can't go wrong really but it's understated and that's a winner in spy movies. I could yawn from here into the 22nd century with the American guff they pump out from Hollywood with a few exceptions.

Roswell, Operation High Jump and the Opium Wars - Douglas Dietrich

Radical historian, Douglas Dietrich's explanation for Roswell is based on the military documents he was charged with destroying at the Presidio Naval base in San Francisco. It's the most convincing explanation in part because it's the least exciting, though that doesn't mean it isn't a notable psycop concealing crucial parts of military history. In addition his insights on the origins of SEATO as an Asian based drug dealing arrangement make him the only one to make this entirely plausible claim.