New book affords an up close look at CIA influence in making Hollywood movies since World War II

How the CIA Spooked Hollywood Movies

This article first appeared in the LSE Review of Books. In Secrecy’s Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941-1979. Simon Willmetts. Edinburgh University Press. 2016. Pairing archival research with close textual analysis, Simon Willmetts’s new book, In Secrecy’s Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema, 1941-1979, provides an extensive history of the relationship…