Spies in the American Movies: Hollywood's take on Lese Majesté. Johnson, L. K. Intelligence and National Security, 23(1):5–24, February, 2008. Publisher: Routledge _eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/02684520701798064![Spies in the American Movies: Hollywood's take on Lese Majesté [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex In the genre of spy thrillers, the films Three Days of the Condor and Spy Game have been among the top box office attractions in the American cinema. They both star Robert Redford and both portray the Central Intelligence Agency as a wicked organization. In light of Hollywood's distorted depiction of the CIA in these movies, their contribution to the health and well-being of the American polity – which depends, like all democracies, on the presence of an informed citizenry – is questionable. As with the best written scholarship on the subject of intelligence, film-goers deserve to know accurately not only what is bad but what is good within the shadows of America's dark side of government, and how the bad might be redressed. The United States needs to try harder to bring the best form of art to the spy movie: cinematography that seeks to tell the truth.
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