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The Central Intelligence Agency was created under President Truman with the National Security Act of 1947. The Agency was a successor to the wartime spy outfit, OSS (Office of Strategic Services), but its role was limited to intelligence gathering and coordination. CIA quickly became involved in covert operations, coups, assassinations, and psychological warfare. On December 22, 1963, one month after the assassination of JFK, Truman wrote an Op-Ed in the Washington Post, "Limit CIA to Intelligence Role." Here are a couple quotes from that article:

For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas.

We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.

For the last 70 years, the CIA has operated without sufficient oversight. It's crimes against sovereign nations and the American people are thoroughly documented. See: Operation Paperclip, Operation Mockingbird, MKULTRA, Chile 1973, Iran 1953, Lumumba, and on and on. See William Blum's "Killing Hope" for a thorough history of CIA and military interventions since World War II. See "A Timeline for CIA Atrocities" for a condensed online summary.

Thanks to President Obama, the Senate report on CIA torture has been kept from public view for at least the next 12 years. But we already know that the CIA has tortured people to death.

The CIA must be abolished if we want to salvage our democracy. Any legitimate functions that it performs can be transferred to new or existing wings of the government.

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Weekly Political Film Series

Upcoming Films

3/20/18

Winter Soldier (1972)

For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed

3/27
The Sensitives (2017)

4/3
Chile: the Obstinate Memory (1997, dir. Patricio Guzman)

4/11 (Wednesday)
Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits (2011)

4/18
Missing (1982)

Past Films

All Power to the People (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoLuTH2W5o&t=...

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016)
http://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com/dvd-streami...

The Coconut Revolution (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDpvxQe_Jhg&t=...

Hearts & Minds (1974)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lWF100yTM

HyperNormalisation (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM

Earth First! The Politics of Radical Environmentalism (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhTTAVbDEfw

The Battle of Chile, Part 1 (1975)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5GeEzBKGsQ

The Parallax View (1974)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Parallax_View

Videocracy (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-n-GqHweak

Mike Ruppert's Truth & Lies of 9/11 (2001)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uU6U7H7Aws

The Tillman Story (2010)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tillman_Story

Snowden (2016)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowden_(film)

RFK Must Die (2007)
http://www.rfkmustdie.com/

3/7
Generation Zero (2010)
Occupy Unmasked (2012)
Double feature of Steve Bannon-directed films.

3/14
9/11: Press for Truth (2006)
Antidote to sensationalistic 9/11 conspiracy films.

3/21
Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2007, dir. John Gianvito)

3/28
Rome Open City (1945, dir. Roberto Rossellini)
Classic of Italian neorealism set during the Nazi occupation.

4/4
In the Year of the Pig (1968, dir. Emile de Antonio)

4/11
Point of Order (1964, dir. Emile de Antonio)

4/18
Rush to Judgment (1967, dir. Emile de Antonio)

5/2
America is Hard to See (1970, dir. Emile de Antonio)

5/16
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)

5/23
Les maîtres fous (The mad masters) (1955, dir. Jean Rouch)
Fair Game (2010)
Starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

5/30
Number our Days (1977)
Three Thousand Years and Life (1973)

6/13
Maidan (2014)

6/20
Do Not Resist (2016)
New documentary exploring the militarization of the police.

6/27
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Movie That JFK Wanted Made, But Didn't Live to See