Hi!
I'm trying to remember a movie I saw, shown in color, seen some 3, 4, maybe 5 years ago (but that does not necessarily mean it was made then - it could have been made before 2018) on Netflix (or was it Amazon??) about the O.S.S. ("Office of Strategic Services") the WW2 precursor to the CIA.
It goes into the formation of the OSS and its activities during WW2 with drama thrown in for good measure of course - its a movie!
But the real punchline comes at the end in its last few minutes.
We see the head of the OSS, or at least a key man of the OSS, who was shown throughout the movie, faced with his organization's de-funding and elimination because the general sentiment in Washington is that the OSS is no longer needed now that the war is over and won. He is *desperate* to keep his organization going.
This scene is of a room full of men gathered before him. They give the impression of being major American Businesssmen, Industrialists, (or their representatives) etc.
This OSS key man then asks them what would be the value, to them, of having an organization that could provide them with intelligence on EVERYthing going on around the world going forward, now that the war is over and won?
After presenting this the next scene is the CIA being formed in 1947 and a few images, but the message is clear: the CIA continues to serve . . . *American* business interests.
It showed, at its very end, that the function of the CIA is to provide intelligence to American Business, to ensure American Business success, that American Business stays #1 in the world . . . that the CIA has nothing to do with American's "interests", American's "security" nor ensuring "human rights" all over the world or any other such propaganda . . . that the CIA is all about the money . . . American Big Business money.
Anyone remember the name of this movie?
Thanks!!!
I'm trying to remember a movie I saw, shown in color, seen some 3, 4, maybe 5 years ago (but that does not necessarily mean it was made then - it could have been made before 2018) on Netflix (or was it Amazon??) about the O.S.S. ("Office of Strategic Services") the WW2 precursor to the CIA.
It goes into the formation of the OSS and its activities during WW2 with drama thrown in for good measure of course - its a movie!
But the real punchline comes at the end in its last few minutes.
We see the head of the OSS, or at least a key man of the OSS, who was shown throughout the movie, faced with his organization's de-funding and elimination because the general sentiment in Washington is that the OSS is no longer needed now that the war is over and won. He is *desperate* to keep his organization going.
This scene is of a room full of men gathered before him. They give the impression of being major American Businesssmen, Industrialists, (or their representatives) etc.
This OSS key man then asks them what would be the value, to them, of having an organization that could provide them with intelligence on EVERYthing going on around the world going forward, now that the war is over and won?
After presenting this the next scene is the CIA being formed in 1947 and a few images, but the message is clear: the CIA continues to serve . . . *American* business interests.
It showed, at its very end, that the function of the CIA is to provide intelligence to American Business, to ensure American Business success, that American Business stays #1 in the world . . . that the CIA has nothing to do with American's "interests", American's "security" nor ensuring "human rights" all over the world or any other such propaganda . . . that the CIA is all about the money . . . American Big Business money.
Anyone remember the name of this movie?
Thanks!!!
