Out of Frame
About this show
Video essays that explore the intersection of art, culture, and big ideas written & produced by FEE's Director of Media, Sean W. Malone.
The CIA is NOTHING like Mission: Impossible
June 30, 2022
Hot take incoming: Tom Cruise may be the best action star of all time. Likewise, Mission Impossible may be the best action series of all time. But despite the entertaining, competent, “good guy” government agent persona, Tom Cruise’s character “Ethan Hunt” would likely be a murderous psychopath in real life…
In reality, the CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, and other clandestine agencies have a horrific track record of depraved inhumanity and downright incompetency. Let’s take a look at their dismal track records on this episode of Out of Frame.
CREDITS:
Written by Sean W. Malone & Jen Maffessanti
Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Abby Richardson
LINKS:
– Foreign Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/sep/09/georgi-markov-killed-poisoned-umbrella-london-1978
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/13/russia-has-a-long-history-of-eliminating-enemies-of-the-state/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-working-ministry-state-security-charged-global-computer-intrusion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/six-u-s-state-networks-hacked-by-chinese-spies-report-finds
https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/us-alleges-transnational-repression-scheme-involving-chinas-secret-police/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61413335
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/arrests-in-hong-kong-as-world-marks-tiananmen-square-anniversary
https://fee.org/articles/10-terrifying-facts-about-the-east-german-secret-police/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/15/mi6-kept-quiet-about-criminality-of-agent-with-licence-to-kill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/mi5-chief-right-to-be-disgusted-over-mi6-role-rendition-blair
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/12/18/britains-mi6-linked-to-libya-torture-scandal
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55340234
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/02/israels-hit-squads/307973/
– Domestic Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1
https://fee.org/articles/mass-surveillance-is-spreading-along-with-covid-19/
https://fee.org/articles/6-things-we-know-about-the-cia-s-secret-mass-surveillance-program/
https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/jfk_new_york_times_surveillance.php
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/doctors-aided-cia-torture-records-show
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8050930.stm
https://www.vox.com/videos/2022/2/2/22914686/guantanamo-bay-military-prison-closure
https://ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack/
https://www.statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports/
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to
https://government.defenceindex.org/#intro
https://www.city-journal.org/html/hidden-history-evil-13281.html
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/01/defense-fbi-made-up-whitmer-kidnap-plot-build-their-careers/7249153001/
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/1991-12-01/intelligence-failure-pearl-harbor
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850608908435120?journalCode=ujic20
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/65vn-5.htm
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/#doc13
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2600234
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html
https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/dont-ignore-the-cias-intelligence-failure-on-afghanistan/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPZ8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
