![]() ![]() It operated on money skimmed from the Marshall Plan, which offered billions to the free world to repair damage done by the second world war and to create an American economic and political barrier against the Soviets.Īllen Dulles, a future head of the CIA, acted as a consultant to the plan and was party to a secret deal that set aside unaccountable cash for political warfare. Although accountable to government, the CIA was extra-legal. ![]() The organisation was founded in 1947 in response to the threat of communism, but was compromised from the start by competing methodologies: one believing in the patient gathering of secret intelligence through espionage, the other in taking battle to the enemy through covert action. Failure to assimilate leaves them reliant on bought loyalties and purchased intelligence, both easily turned, and therein lies the weakness of the CIA. The same point is implicit in Weiner's highly critical account of the CIA: when it comes to intelligence, Americans stand out as Americans, making them poor spies. The joke of the film, of which Lang must have been aware, was that Cooper could never have been mistaken for anything other than an American. Cloak and Dagger, a second world war piece of Hollywood propaganda directed by German émigré Fritz Lang, casts Gary Cooper as a spy behind Nazi lines. ![]()
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