Clandestime

The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark was the last great book on the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. In this episode I... The post ClandesTime 283 – 9/11: The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark first appeared on Spy Culture.

The rise of former CIA officers working as consultants to the film and TV business is one of the cultural... The post Subscribercast #100 – The Latest in the CIA and Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

Godzilla movies vary enormously, from goofy to serious, from smart to utterly moronic.  In this subscribercast we look at the... The post Subscribercast #99 – Godzilla vs Godzilla Minus One first appeared on Spy Culture.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 London Bombings, a terrorist mass murder that I investigated for many... The post ClandesTime 282 – The 7/7 London Bombings Revisited first appeared on Spy Culture.

The Lockerbie bombing, which brought down Pan Am 103 and killed 270 people, is one of the most disturbing events... The post ClandesTime 281 – Conspiracy Theories: The Lockerbie Bombing first appeared on Spy Culture.

Zero Day is the latest in CIA-supported Netflix spy dramas, only this time it’s cyberterrorism rather than Arab hijackers or... The post Subscribercast #98 – Zero Day first appeared on Spy Culture.

I offer some thoughts on the 90s thriller The Fugitive, honing in on the Tommy Lee Jones character and his... The post Subscribercast #97 – The Fugitive first appeared on Spy Culture.

The Pentagon’s Hollywood offices claim that they don’t pitch, they don’t try to push certain content into the culture industries.... The post ClandesTime 280 – How the US Military Pitches Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

We check in with the recently-released season two of Netflix’s The Recruit, a show supported by the CIA, DOD and... The post Subscribercast #96 – The Recruit Season Two first appeared on Spy Culture.

How are government employees portrayed in popular movies? In this episode we review Civil Servants on the Silver Screen, an... The post ClandesTime 279 – Civil Servants on the Silver Screen first appeared on Spy Culture.

In 1982 an anti-anarchist pro-SAS movie supported by the real SAS and based on the Iranian embassy siege was released,... The post ClandesTime 278 – The Final Option (or Who Dares Wins) first appeared on Spy Culture.

For this end-of-year subscriber podcast I take a look at the 1990s cult classic Point Break. A simple tale of... The post Subscribercast #95 – Point Break first appeared on Spy Culture.

Over the last decade, data has become the new resource or commodity underpinning the failing global economy. In this episode... The post ClandesTime 277 – How Big Data is Ruining Football (and possibly the planet) first appeared on Spy Culture.

The murders of Biggie and Tupac remain unsolved. In this episode we examine the film City of Lies, which ties... The post ClandesTime 276 – City of Lies first appeared on Spy Culture.

Netflix’s The Diplomat is cutting edge State Department propaganda, as well as being a Homeland replacement set in and around... The post Subscribercast #94 – The Diplomat Season Two first appeared on Spy Culture.

The Union is the latest big spy film to hit streaming and has proven a success despite being a 10... The post ClandesTime 275 – The Union first appeared on Spy Culture.

The topic of Israel and Hollywood tends to attract racists and conspiracy theorists but for this month’s subscribercast I put... The post Subscribercast #93 – Israel and Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

I hate reality TV but it’s cheap, nasty and has taken over the TV entertainment industry. In this episode we... The post ClandesTime 274 – The US Military and Reality TV first appeared on Spy Culture.

Most of you will have read or heard some of the coverage of the relationship between the military and video... The post Subscribercast #92 – The US Military and Video Games first appeared on Spy Culture.

The government involvement in Hollywood marches on so in today’s episode we examine two films that were released this year,... The post ClandesTime 273 – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare vs My Spy: The Eternal City first appeared on Spy Culture.