Who in the CIA is watching movies about spies, and why American intelligence is unhappy with them

The CIA has claims to many popular films, including Spielberg’s Spy Bridge.

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In the internal edition of the CIA found reviews on movies, books and TV shows, writes TJournal. It seems that the intelligence officers do not like the way they are portrayed: the ministry watches a movie about their work in order to criticize it later. Unusual reviews noticed by journalists Motherboard.

The CIA publishes the journal Research in Intelligence (Studies in intelligence) for several decades. It tells about the history, traditions, semantics of the language, as well as, like in many editions of general subjects - about films and books.

Reviews on films about the CIA are often negative. For example, the special service extremely negatively responded about the film “The Killer” (Sicario) Dany Villeneuve, who talks about an FBI agent who discovered a CIA conspiracy in Mexico.

Authors of the publication James Barridge (James Burridge) and John Cavana (John Kavanagh) in the Killer review, they wrote that the CIA has always been an “easy target” for directors who exploit the themes of corruption and conspiracy on high posts.

This conspiracy story that "the CIA is evil" without ambiguous morality or nuances.
from the CIA review of the movie "The Assassin."

At the same time, as noted in MotherboardThe absence of ambiguity is a strange claim, because this is the best part of the picture, for which many viewers have fallen in love with it. In addition, Barridge and Kavana considered a weak ending to the picture “even for a plot about a plot”. The CIA authors hated the film so much that they put an excuse in the text why they decided to write about the tape at all.

We wrote about it here as a completely fictional story about the CIA that might interest readers. Set aside your righteous indignation, sit back and enjoy the review.

from the CIA review of the movie "The Killer

Also, the CIA did not like Steven Spielberg's Spy Bridge. The film tells about a lawyer who agreed on the release of the American pilot Francis Powers, who was captured by the USSR.

[Previously] no one could have said that a director known for his scrupulous attention to historical details in early films ... would rewrite history simply for dramatic effect.

from the CIA review of the movie "Spy Bridge"

The agency negatively responded to the Berlin Residency series, a spy thriller about the work of CIA agents in modern Berlin, most of the first season of which is devoted to the practice of torture in intelligence work.

The claim that the entire CIA workforce is involved in the use of torture lies at the heart of the series’s ideological and artistic background. His main idea of ​​collective guilt is implausible and reprehensible.

from the CIA review of the film "Berlin Residency"

The CIA believes that in the "Berlin Residency" nothing from the work of the department is shown correctly. According to the authors of the review, the show shows a residency in which management behaves "extremely unethical and even criminal." As noted by the CIA, in the series, the division does not report to headquarters, and employees are considered "disposable." The authors of the department noted that this is “not the same residency that most agents have ever encountered.”

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