"HOLLYWOOD AND CIA" - Stealth RI Panel, Left Forum 2013, NYC

[thurnundtaxis]

Work has me hostage for the next five days, so give 'em hell, JR! Sorry i'll miss it.

Let's convene soon, Dada.

PM me!

[OP ED]

OP ED will be thinking of you.

[JackRiddler]

I think there's no problem getting tix at door except for bureaucracy. However, see your PM for more details...

[JackRiddler]

!!!

[semper occultus]

“Spytainment”: The Real Influence of Fake Spies

Amy B. Zegart

International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence
Online publication date: 31 August 2010

Today, the facts and fiction of the spy business are blurring, with important consequences for intelligence policy. In the past two decades, the Spytainment industry has skyrocketed. Government over-classification has continued to keep vital and timely public information about U.S. intelligence agencies out of the public domain. And Political Science professors have been busy researching and teaching about seemingly everything except intelligence. The results are serious. As the nonpartisan, expert Intelligence Science Board concluded in a 2006 report, spy-themed entertainment has become adult education. American citizens are steeped in misperceptions about what intelligence agencies actually do, and misplaced expectations about how well they can do it. Perhaps even more disturbing, evidence suggests that policymakers—from cadets at West Point to senators on the Intelligence Committee to Supreme Court Justices—are referencing fake spies to formulate and implement real intelligence policies.

http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/23340/Spytainment_IJICI.pdf