"The CIA even sabotaged a planned series of documentaries about their predecessor, the OSS, by having assets at CBS develop a rival production to muscle the smaller studio out of the market. Once this was achieved, the Agency pulled the plug on the CBS series too, ensuring that the activities of the OSS remained safe from public scrutiny."
That stood out to me as well, but not in a positive way. Their sole example of the sort of proactive scheming and weaving I was expecting from our spooks, and it happened in the 40s/50s? Again it sounds scary on the face of it, but I'm just not quite feeling it.
Since its entertainment, I can hardly think that "scared" would be an appropriate reaction to take anyways.
Some good things to take from this article though:
1. The integrity of writing and original scripts are being altered to fit a specific message.
2. Propaganda is being inserted into our media with no disclaimer or way to discern it.
3. These institutions are essentially subsidizing film budgets, which seems like an inappropriate use of funds (in my opinion of course)
Of course it isn't anything to be worried about, but it does bring into light how these 3 letter agencies are very aware of their not-so-patriotic actions, and are taking measures to try to erase or distract people.
