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One of the main topics discussed in this section of the documentary is plausible deniability, and how high officials are able to claim it by being kept out of the loop on certain topics. Within a few years of its creation, the CIA become one of the most powerful institutions within the United States. After its creation the National Security Council passed a law that allowed the CIA to conduct programs that were officially nonexistent and therefore bypassed needing congressional approval. The National Security Council ordered these programs to be "planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." This gave the United States and the top leaders the ability to disavow that certain actions were done at the behest of the president himself. By doing this, there was no connection between the United States government and the acts that were to occur.

The second section of the documentary focuses on the incarceration of people for profit and the expanding prison population of which the majority are incarcerated for drug related crimes. This section also looks at the "War on Drugs" and the criminal networks that have been involved in it for example mafias and gangs. - The third section of the documentary discusses the history of false flag operations that were used for propaganda, war, and psychological operations, also known as "psy-ops". Two examples that are given in this portion of the documentary are Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio. These operations are used to show the clandestine nature of the planning and execution of operations.

The fourth portion of the documentary examines torture, war crimes, and the abuses of authority that occur during times of protest and war. This section of the documentary discusses the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the effects that those attacks had on the people. The documentary also discusses other scenarios that the U.S. could have pursued when planning the bombings, and the possible outcomes of those scenarios are also discussed. Ultimately the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the final decisions on that matter.

The fifth and final portion of the documentary discusses the 2011 NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. In 2011, the act was changed from only applying to "Enemy Combatants" to American citizens themselves. The Act allows for U.S. citizens in addition to enemy combatants to be arrested on American soil and to be detained for an indefinite amount of time. This section of the documentary looks at how the U.S. gets intelligence of "enemy combatants" and how drones are used.

This movie briefly covers NSA analyst-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and his escape from American authorities to Hong Kong and later to Russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the American government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. The movie also presents the journalists who had an exclusive access to Snowden and also the members of WikiLeaks, who helped him in moments of his escape.

Office of Strategic Service (OSS) training film that analyzes the preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Col. Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at the OSS.

The film gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, good cover versus bad cover, and emphasises proper attitude, study, and importance of support staff. Explains ways to infiltrate territory. Illustrates effective and ineffective spy methods by comparing two agents. Ways to camouflage or dispose of revealing evidence are discussed. Explains techniques of blending into other cultures and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in a foreign country.

Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe, a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.

The Mossad or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas. In this documentary, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.

The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy - former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - as well as Rafi Eitan, leader of the team which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the sixties.

Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others question whether their methods are in breach of international law.

In late June of 2013, as United States leaders were publicly labeling him as a "coward" and a "traitor", Edward Snowden was hiding from authorities in Hong Kong. Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden dramatizes the pulse pounding moments prior to and in the aftermath of this moment.

Sabrina De Sousa is one of nearly two-dozen CIA officers who was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced by Italian courts in absentia in 2009 for the role she allegedly played in the rendition of a radical cleric named Abu Omar. It was the first and only criminal prosecution that has ever taken place related to the CIA's rendition program, which involved more than 100 suspected terrorists and the assistance of dozens of European countries.

But De Sousa, a dual US and Portuguese citizen, said she had nothing to do with the cleric's abduction and has been wrongly accused. For the past decade, she has been on a global quest to clear her name. VICE News met up with De Sousa in Lisbon, Portugal--and other key figures connected to the case--for an exclusive interview about the steps she's now taking in an effort to hold the CIA accountable for one of the most notorious counterterrorism operations in the history of the agency.

Every year, Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice to Blackhawk helicopters and nuclear-powered submarines. The military will happily oblige, it says in an army handbook, so long as the movie "aid - Sibel Edmonds was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the “terrorist” attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired 6 months later in March 2002 in retaliation for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks.

John Ashcroft invoked State Secrets Privilege at the request of the Defense Department to retroactively classify her statements and prevent her testimony to the 9/11 Commission and Congress from being used. She may be the most gagged whistle blower in U.S. history.

[Counter-Intelligence: I - The Company](https://vimeo.com/65148608) - One of the main topics discussed in this section of the documentary is plausible deniability, and how high officials are able to claim it by being kept out of the loop on certain topics. Within a few years of its creation, the CIA become one of the most powerful institutions within the United States. After its creation the National Security Council passed a law that allowed the CIA to conduct programs that were officially nonexistent and therefore bypassed needing congressional approval. The National Security Council ordered these programs to be "planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." This gave the United States and the top leaders the ability to disavow that certain actions were done at the behest of the president himself. By doing this, there was no connection between the United States government and the acts that were to occur.   [Counter-Intelligence: II - The Deep State](https://vimeo.com/65942057) - The second section of the documentary focuses on the incarceration of people for profit and the expanding prison population of which the majority are incarcerated for drug related crimes. This section also looks at the "War on Drugs" and the criminal networks that have been involved in it for example mafias and gangs.[3] Colombia is mentioned when discussing "The War on Drugs" due to the drug trafficking that occurs in the state and the fighting that happens because of the trafficking. The documentary also mentions how the drug trafficking affects the people of Colombia.   [Counter-Intelligence: III - The Strategy of Tension](https://vimeo.com/66019647) - The third section of the documentary discusses the history of false flag operations that were used for propaganda, war, and psychological operations, also known as "psy-ops". Two examples that are given in this portion of the documentary are Operation Northwoods and Operation Gladio. These operations are used to show the clandestine nature of the planning and execution of operations.   [Counter-Intelligence: IV - Necrophilous](https://vimeo.com/67633913) - The fourth portion of the documentary examines torture, war crimes, and the abuses of authority that occur during times of protest and war. This section of the documentary discusses the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the effects that those attacks had on the people. The documentary also discusses other scenarios that the U.S. could have pursued when planning the bombings, and the possible outcomes of those scenarios are also discussed. Ultimately the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the final decisions on that matter.   [Counter-Intelligence: V - Drone Nation](https://vimeo.com/66183267) - The fifth and final portion of the documentary discusses the 2011 NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act. In 2011, the act was changed from only applying to "Enemy Combatants" to American citizens themselves. The Act allows for U.S. citizens in addition to enemy combatants to be arrested on American soil and to be detained for an indefinite amount of time. This section of the documentary looks at how the U.S. gets intelligence of "enemy combatants" and how drones are used.   [Anonymous - Chasing Edward Snowden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkLS95qDjI) - This movie briefly covers NSA analyst-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and his escape from American authorities to Hong Kong and later to Russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the American government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. The movie also presents the journalists who had an exclusive access to Snowden and also the members of WikiLeaks, who helped him in moments of his escape.   [Undercover - 1940's American Secret Agent Training](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4jyfaA9teg) - Office of Strategic Service (OSS) training film that analyzes the preparation, arrival, establishment, and "prevalent cover" for secret agents by presenting one movie within another, as introduced by Col. Robertson, chief of Schools and Training at the OSS. The film gives examples of agents discovered because of inattention to details, good cover versus bad cover, and emphasises proper attitude, study, and importance of support staff. Explains ways to infiltrate territory. Illustrates effective and ineffective spy methods by comparing two agents. Ways to camouflage or dispose of revealing evidence are discussed. Explains techniques of blending into other cultures and preparing for sudden departure, how to choose residence and how to avoid suspicion in a foreign country.   [Operation Gladio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXavNe81XdQ) - Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio', the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe, a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies.   [The Mossad](http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/08/100805_the_mossad.shtml) - The Mossad or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas. In this documentary, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy - former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon - as well as Rafi Eitan, leader of the team which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the sixties. Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others question whether their methods are in breach of international law.   [Edward Snowden - Terminal F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd6qN167wKo) - In late June of 2013, as United States leaders were publicly labeling him as a "coward" and a "traitor", Edward Snowden was hiding from authorities in Hong Kong. Terminal F: Chasing Edward Snowden dramatizes the pulse pounding moments prior to and in the aftermath of this moment.   [An Ex-CIA Officer Speaks Out: The Italian Job](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwgx0DwhPiY) - Sabrina De Sousa is one of nearly two-dozen CIA officers who was prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced by Italian courts in absentia in 2009 for the role she allegedly played in the rendition of a radical cleric named Abu Omar. It was the first and only criminal prosecution that has ever taken place related to the CIA's rendition program, which involved more than 100 suspected terrorists and the assistance of dozens of European countries. But De Sousa, a dual US and Portuguese citizen, said she had nothing to do with the cleric's abduction and has been wrongly accused. For the past decade, she has been on a global quest to clear her name. VICE News met up with De Sousa in Lisbon, Portugal--and other key figures connected to the case--for an exclusive interview about the steps she's now taking in an effort to hold the CIA accountable for one of the most notorious counterterrorism operations in the history of the agency.   [Operation Hollywood: How The Pentagon Shapes And Censors The Movies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPZL5WTilRE) - Every year, Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films, seeking everything from locations and technical advice to Blackhawk helicopters and nuclear-powered submarines. The military will happily oblige, it says in an army handbook, so long as the movie "aid[s] in the recruiting and retention of personnel." The producers want to make money; the Defense Department wants to make propaganda. Former Hollywood Reporter staffer Robb explores the conflicts resulting from these negotiations in this illuminating though sometimes tedious study of the military-entertainment complex over the last 50 years. Robb shows how, in the Nicholas Cage film Windtalkers, the Marine Corps strong-armed producers into deleting a scene where a Marine pries gold teeth from a dead Japanese soldier (a historically accurate detail). At its worst, the author argues, the Pentagon unscrupulously targets children; Robb reveals how the Defense Department helped insert military story lines into the Mickey Mouse Club. To help, Robb suggests a schedule of uniform fees by which producers could rent aircraft carriers, F-16s & the like. It's an intriguing idea, though producers can go it alone: as Robb points out, blockbusters Forrest Gump, An Officer & a Gentleman & Platoon were all made without military assistance.   [Sibel Edmonds - Kill The Messenger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6azJ67ematI) - Sibel Edmonds was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the “terrorist” attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired 6 months later in March 2002 in retaliation for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks. John Ashcroft invoked State Secrets Privilege at the request of the Defense Department to retroactively classify her statements and prevent her testimony to the 9/11 Commission and Congress from being used. She may be the most gagged whistle blower in U.S. history.  

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The Panama Deception is a 1992 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is critical of the actions of the US military during the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, covering the conflicting reasons for the invasion and depicting the US media as biased. It also highlighted media bias, showing events that were unreported or systematically misreported in the news, including downplaying the number of civilian casualties. It was directed by Barbara Trent, written and edited by David Kasper, and narrated by actress Elizabeth Montgomery. It was a production of the Empowerment Project.

The film asserts that the U.S. government invaded Panama primarily to destroy the PDF, the Panamanian Defense Forces, who were perceived as a threat to U.S. control over Panama, and to install a U.S.-approved government. The film includes footage of mass graves uncovered after the U.S. troops had withdrawn, burned down neighborhoods, as well as depictions of some of the 20,000 refugees who fled the fighting.

The undersea world is an unseen battleground. Join Dr. Robert Ballard as he reveals how technology, commerce and conflict have shaped 150 years of endless struggle for supremacy of the seas — not on the surface but at the very bottom of the ocean.

A former Al Qaeda operative and informant steps out of the shadows. He reveals a sinister double game played by Al Qaeda and the former Yemen government of Ali Abdullah Saleh.

In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4′s Dispatches. Channel 4 News has accessed the data in the classified documents via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and WikiLeaks. The only TV doc to have advance access to the biggest Wikileaks release ever. This is what really happened during the Iraq war, not what the US PR machine of the time wanted us to believe. The reality behind the civilian death count; al-Qaedaâ™s fictitious presence; torture, torture and more torture. A wall of truth revealing unprecedented levels of unwarranted aggression. Dispatches, Channel 4′s flagship current affairs strand, exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath, revealing the true scale of civilian casualties and allegations that even after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners. And that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services. The programme also features previously unreported material of insurgents being killed while trying to surrender.

The Supreme Allied Commander of World War II relied on the covert arm of the C.I.A. to an unprecedented scale during his presidency. From his education on clandestine warfare from Winston Churchill to C.I.A. missions all over the world, Eisenhower unleashed his operatives like no other U.S. leader.

The all-important race to develop an atomic bomb led to some of the most daring Russian spy operations in the United States. Exclusive interviews with Russian agents detail the inside story of the Soviet atomic spy ring.

How close did the Superpowers actually come to a nuclear holocaust? New information on brutal power struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the Cuban missile crisis and the terrifying Doomsday Machine built to end the world.

From revolutionary coups and election rigging to embassy spying, the West employed the C.I.A. in controversial ways to win the Cold War.

Hear the untold stories behind the headlines in the unseen cold war battles between the Western intelligence agencies and the K.G.B.

This youngest of American presidents took over in the most tense period of the Cold War. Hear the stories from within the White House, on the front lines of C.I.A. operations in Cuba and in the espionage capital of Berlin.

Although he tried to distance himself from Stalin's ruthless regime, Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Take a look at the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Soviet point of view, as well as brutal repressions in Poland and Hungary against Communist resistors.

The story behind Richard Nixon's resounding triumphs and crushing defeats, included are his stinging investigation of alleged Communist Alger Hiss, the covert missions carried out during his presidency in Vietnam and the secrets behind his foreign policy victories with China and the Soviet Union.

From C.I.A. assassination attempts foiled by Cuban Intelligence agents to Castro's secret pacts with the Soviets and his survival after the Cold War, a look at one of the most enduring revolutionaries of the twentieth century.

Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another. From Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in Arab-Israeli conflicts to the untold stories of the invasion of Afghanistan.

Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it. From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version - Openleaks.org. Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the Internet?

It's the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control. Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research?

John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of "economic hit men", who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the global American empire after World War II. After a long internal struggle between his guilt and the fear of telling the truth, Perkins meets the daughter of an assassinated president and speaks out in front of an angry Latin-American audience.

Based on rare propagandistic material, film-noir style reconstructed sequences and exclusive filmed confessions of best selling author John Perkins ("Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", "The Secret History of the American Empire") this fascinating documentary sheds light on the unknown mechanisms used by the rulers of the modern world, the roots of Islamic terrorism, and the reason why most of the world's population lives in poverty.

Evidence of Revision is a 9 hour long documentary series whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the American public relating to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the little known classified Black Ops actually used to intentionally create the massive war in Viet Nam, the CIA “mind control” programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre and other important truths of our post-modern time.

The U.S. Government’s Orwellian Office of Public Diplomacy has been in existence in various forms and under various names since World War ONE. The union of American governance and American corporate interests began in Abraham Lincoln’s day and the massaging of public truth began even before the Roman Empire. The more you know about real history versus official history, the better equipped you are to see behind the lies of our times, even as they are told to you. Some of us knew what was really happening even before the second plane hit the tower.

Episodes included:

The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald,
The Why of it all referenced to Viet Nam and LBJ,
LBJ, Hoover and Others. What So Few Know Even Today,
The RFK Assassination As Never Seen Before,
The RFK Assassination Continued, MK ULTRA and the Jonestown Massacre,
MLK Conspiratus.

It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence in London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance. The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a politically difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War. Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya. After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow, Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko. The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.

The Bush family, the Saudi Royal family, Osama Bin Laden's family and Donald Rumsfeld's inner circle - these are just some of the high profile figures who have played a direct role in the rise of one of the most powerful and influential and secretive firms in Washington. The company is called The Carlyle Group. And in the wake of the events of September 11th and the invasion of Iraq, its power and influence have become significantly stronger. The company operates within the so-called iron-triangle of industry, government and the military. Its list of former and current advisers and associates includes a vast array of some of the most powerful men in America and indeed around the world. This program exposes the history of the Carlyle Group, from it's inception as a private equity firm to it's precent status as one of the largest defence contractors in the world.

This is the first authoritative account of the postwar relationship between General Reinhard Gehlen, a figure unique in the history of espionage, and American intelligence. Eleven years after the defeat of Germany, Gehlen, Hitler's chief of eastern front intelligence, became head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) for the democratic West German government of Konrad Adenauer. The core of his staff in the BND were the same officers who had served with him under Hitler. The instruments for this metamorphosis were agencies of Gehlen's former enemy: U.S. Army Intelligence and the CIA. How did this happen and why? Was there a Nazi connection? This book answers these questions in detail, combining the elements of a gripping novel of espionage with solid scholarship based on U.S. government documents and interviews with former G-2, CIC and CIA officers.

[The Panama Deception](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6yVNWcGCo) - The Panama Deception is a 1992 American documentary film that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is critical of the actions of the US military during the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, covering the conflicting reasons for the invasion and depicting the US media as biased. It also highlighted media bias, showing events that were unreported or systematically misreported in the news, including downplaying the number of civilian casualties. It was directed by Barbara Trent, written and edited by David Kasper, and narrated by actress Elizabeth Montgomery. It was a production of the Empowerment Project. The film asserts that the U.S. government invaded Panama primarily to destroy the PDF, the Panamanian Defense Forces, who were perceived as a threat to U.S. control over Panama, and to install a U.S.-approved government. The film includes footage of mass graves uncovered after the U.S. troops had withdrawn, burned down neighborhoods, as well as depictions of some of the 20,000 refugees who fled the fighting.   [Cold War Spy Secrets Under the Sea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYNOrFK3B4) - The undersea world is an unseen battleground. Join Dr. Robert Ballard as he reveals how technology, commerce and conflict have shaped 150 years of endless struggle for supremacy of the seas — not on the surface but at the very bottom of the ocean.   [Al Qaeda Informant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W6hlSbCV_Y) - A former Al Qaeda operative and informant steps out of the shadows. He reveals a sinister double game played by Al Qaeda and the former Yemen government of Ali Abdullah Saleh.   [The Secret Iraq Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNS-iwjg6Gk) - In the biggest official files leak in history nearly 400,000 Iraq war logs reveal the massive scale of civilian deaths and new torture allegations following an investigation by Channel 4′s Dispatches. Channel 4 News has accessed the data in the classified documents via The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and WikiLeaks. The only TV doc to have advance access to the biggest Wikileaks release ever. This is what really happened during the Iraq war, not what the US PR machine of the time wanted us to believe. The reality behind the civilian death count; al-Qaedaâ™s fictitious presence; torture, torture and more torture. A wall of truth revealing unprecedented levels of unwarranted aggression. Dispatches, Channel 4′s flagship current affairs strand, exposes the full and unreported horror of the Iraqi conflict and its aftermath, revealing the true scale of civilian casualties and allegations that even after the scandal of Abu Ghraib, American soldiers continued to abuse prisoners. And that US forces did not systematically intervene in the torture and murder of detainees by the Iraqi security services. The programme also features previously unreported material of insurgents being killed while trying to surrender.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 01 - Eisenhower's Operatives](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgmkCzazRC4) - The Supreme Allied Commander of World War II relied on the covert arm of the C.I.A. to an unprecedented scale during his presidency. From his education on clandestine warfare from Winston Churchill to C.I.A. missions all over the world, Eisenhower unleashed his operatives like no other U.S. leader.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 02 - The Hunt For Atomic Secrets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQvjnM0bgxA) - The all-important race to develop an atomic bomb led to some of the most daring Russian spy operations in the United States. Exclusive interviews with Russian agents detail the inside story of the Soviet atomic spy ring.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 03 - The Strangelove Factor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4YtvX5yWA) - How close did the Superpowers actually come to a nuclear holocaust? New information on brutal power struggles behind the Iron Curtain, the Cuban missile crisis and the terrifying Doomsday Machine built to end the world.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 04 - Inside The CIA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou35Zzfl4AU) - From revolutionary coups and election rigging to embassy spying, the West employed the C.I.A. in controversial ways to win the Cold War.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 05 - Inside The KGB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypuuxrxcVek) - Hear the untold stories behind the headlines in the unseen cold war battles between the Western intelligence agencies and the K.G.B.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 06 - The Kennedy Years](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lCDQx8tRWU) - This youngest of American presidents took over in the most tense period of the Cold War. Hear the stories from within the White House, on the front lines of C.I.A. operations in Cuba and in the espionage capital of Berlin.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 07 - Khrushchev's Regime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIkhrInjSyE) - Although he tried to distance himself from Stalin's ruthless regime, Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Take a look at the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Soviet point of view, as well as brutal repressions in Poland and Hungary against Communist resistors.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 08 - Nixon's Secrets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVV00_Ct7KA) - The story behind Richard Nixon's resounding triumphs and crushing defeats, included are his stinging investigation of alleged Communist Alger Hiss, the covert missions carried out during his presidency in Vietnam and the secrets behind his foreign policy victories with China and the Soviet Union.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 09 - Castro's Revolution](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8DbgAP2Zs) - From C.I.A. assassination attempts foiled by Cuban Intelligence agents to Castro's secret pacts with the Soviets and his survival after the Cold War, a look at one of the most enduring revolutionaries of the twentieth century.   [Secrets Of War, The Cold War 10 - Brezhnev's Kremlin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUFtlSzMJ0) - Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another. From Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in Arab-Israeli conflicts to the untold stories of the invasion of Afghanistan.   [Wikirebels](https://vimeo.com/17711353) - Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it. From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version - Openleaks.org. Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the Internet?   [CIA Secret Experiments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9_DzwunVs) - It's the height of the Cold War and the United States government is desperate to combat the spread of Communism. The CIA launches a highly classified, top secret research program into the covert use of biological and chemical agents. In simulated attacks on enemy populations, entire cities in America are contaminated with bacteria, exposing millions of Americans to germ warfare. But the real focus of the research is on mastering the art of mind control. Psychiatrists at top academic institutions work under secret contract with the agency. Psychiatric patients, prisoners, even unwitting members of the public are exposed to a startling array of experiments designed to facilitate interrogations, induce amnesia and program in new behavior. Every psychological technique is explored, including hypnosis, electroshock therapy and lethal cocktails of drugs. What was the extent of these brainwashing experiments? How did the CIA become involved in such far-reaching and disturbing research?   [Apologies Of An Economic Hitman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui0NL3bb21o) - John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of "economic hit men", who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the global American empire after World War II. After a long internal struggle between his guilt and the fear of telling the truth, Perkins meets the daughter of an assassinated president and speaks out in front of an angry Latin-American audience. Based on rare propagandistic material, film-noir style reconstructed sequences and exclusive filmed confessions of best selling author John Perkins ("Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", "The Secret History of the American Empire") this fascinating documentary sheds light on the unknown mechanisms used by the rulers of the modern world, the roots of Islamic terrorism, and the reason why most of the world's population lives in poverty.   [Evidence of Revision](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHb5X3fFhPw) - Evidence of Revision is a 9 hour long documentary series whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the American public relating to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, the little known classified Black Ops actually used to intentionally create the massive war in Viet Nam, the CIA “mind control” programs and their involvement in the RFK assassination and the Jonestown massacre and other important truths of our post-modern time. The U.S. Government’s Orwellian Office of Public Diplomacy has been in existence in various forms and under various names since World War ONE. The union of American governance and American corporate interests began in Abraham Lincoln’s day and the massaging of public truth began even before the Roman Empire. The more you know about real history versus official history, the better equipped you are to see behind the lies of our times, even as they are told to you. Some of us knew what was really happening even before the second plane hit the tower. Episodes included: * The Assassinations of Kennedy and Oswald, * The Why of it all referenced to Viet Nam and LBJ, * LBJ, Hoover and Others. What So Few Know Even Today, * The RFK Assassination As Never Seen Before, * The RFK Assassination Continued, MK ULTRA and the Jonestown Massacre, * MLK Conspiratus.   [In Memoriam Alexander Litvinenko](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnkYo9TuBIQ) - It started as a possible case of food poisoning but within weeks turned into a grim spectacle of enormous political proportions: Aleksander Litvinenko, former member of the Russian secret service, died in his place of residence in London last November, after having been poisoned with a radioactive substance. The search for the possible perpetrators lead to a politically difficult situation that reminded us of the dark days of the Cold War. Aleksander Litvinenko told his life story to documentary maker Jos De Putter. It is a wild tale full of conspiracies, assassination attempts and imputations. Litvinenko talks about his time with the secret service, about his experience in Chechnya. After Litvinenko's funeral in December 2006, Backlight spoke to Litvinenko's widow, Litvinenko's father Walter, with Chechen leader and Litvinenko's closest friend Akhmed Zakayev and the prominent Russian exile Vladmir Bukovsky, also a friend of Litvinenko. The result is an impressive 55-minute portrait of a former spy whose death brought him worldwide fame.   [Iron Triangle: The Carlyle Group](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqb7Wf_KCG8) - The Bush family, the Saudi Royal family, Osama Bin Laden's family and Donald Rumsfeld's inner circle - these are just some of the high profile figures who have played a direct role in the rise of one of the most powerful and influential and secretive firms in Washington. The company is called The Carlyle Group. And in the wake of the events of September 11th and the invasion of Iraq, its power and influence have become significantly stronger. The company operates within the so-called iron-triangle of industry, government and the military. Its list of former and current advisers and associates includes a vast array of some of the most powerful men in America and indeed around the world. This program exposes the history of the Carlyle Group, from it's inception as a private equity firm to it's precent status as one of the largest defence contractors in the world.   [The CIA and The Nazis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhriW4dY1Ic) - This is the first authoritative account of the postwar relationship between General Reinhard Gehlen, a figure unique in the history of espionage, and American intelligence. Eleven years after the defeat of Germany, Gehlen, Hitler's chief of eastern front intelligence, became head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) for the democratic West German government of Konrad Adenauer. The core of his staff in the BND were the same officers who had served with him under Hitler. The instruments for this metamorphosis were agencies of Gehlen's former enemy: U.S. Army Intelligence and the CIA. How did this happen and why? Was there a Nazi connection? This book answers these questions in detail, combining the elements of a gripping novel of espionage with solid scholarship based on U.S. government documents and interviews with former G-2, CIC and CIA officers.

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