In secrecy's shadow : the OSS and CIA in Hollywood cinema, 1941-1979 /
Simon Willmetts.
- xii, 307 pages : illustrations
- Traditions in American Cinema .
HKBU library
YT2025 M09
This book provides the first comprehensive history of the relationship between Hollywood, the Central Intelligence Agency, and its wartime predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. Utilising extensive archival research and interviews with filmmakers and former spies, it documents a revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and the secret state from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme0skepticism and paranoia.
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United States.--In motion pictures. United States.
Spy films--History and criticism.--United States Motion pictures. Spy films.