The CIA’s Work With Hollywood Filmmakers

Puts All Media Workers at Risk...

By Adam Johnson

Global Research, April 09, 2016

FAIR 8 April 2016

Region: USA

Theme: Culture, Society & History, Intelligence

Vice’s Jason Leopold (4/6/16) has uncovered documents showing the CIA had a role in producing up to 22 entertainment “projects,” including History Channel documentary Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline, Bravo‘s Top Chef: Covert Cuisine, the USA Network series Covert Affairs and the BBC documentary The Secret War on Terror—along with two fictional feature films about the CIA that both came out in 2012.

The CIA’s involvement in the production of Zero Dark Thirty (effectively exchanging “insider” access for a two-hour-long torture commercial) has already been well-established, but the agency’s role in the production of Argo—which won the Best Picture Oscar for 2012—was heretofore unknown. The extent of the CIA’s involvement in the projects is still largely classified, as Leopold notes, quoting an Agency audit report:

However, because of the lack of adequate records, we were unable to determine the extent of the CIA’s support to the eight projects, the extent to which foreign nationals participated in CIA-sponsored activities, and whether the Director/OPA approved the activities and participation of foreign nationals…. Failure on the part of CIA officers to adhere to the regulatory requirements could result in unauthorized disclosures, inappropriate actions and negative consequences for the CIA.

The CIA’s history of producing or helping to produce films goes back decades. The Agency, for example, secretly bought the rights to Animal Farm after Orwell’s death in 1950 and produce an animated adaptation centered on demonizing the Soviet Union rather than capturing Orwell’s broader critiques of power.

John Goodman played a moviemaker working with CIA agent Ben Affleck to produce a fake film in the Oscar-winning Argo. It turns out there were real CIA agents working with the real movie-makers to make the actual film Argo.

And as the CIA got involved in film production, Hollywood players have likewise taken part in covert operations. For years, legendary film producer Arnon Milchan (Pretty Woman, Fight Club, back-to-back Oscar winner for Best Picture in 2014 and 2015) worked for Israeli intelligence to deal arms and obtain technologies Israel needed to make nuclear weapons. “At the peak of his activities,” according to the Guardian, he was “operating 30 companies in 17 countries and brokering deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars,” an arrangement that, Milchan told the BBC (11/26/13), involved Sydney Pollack—director of Sabrina, Tootsie and, ironically enough, Three Days of the Condor.

In such revelations, an important point is often overlooked: The CIA assisting or posing as filmmakers, journalists and other creative roles—a practice the Agency reserves the right to partake in to this day—puts actual filmmakers, journalists and other creators at risk overseas. It’s an important piece of context that’s rarely addressed by a pundit class who is (rightfully) outraged at American journalists and filmmakers being detained as spies overseas, but responds with praise or amusement when CIA takes on such roles as cover.

The amnesia at work is impressive. Jon Stewart’s film Rosewater, about Iran detaining Iranian-Canadian journalist and filmmaker Maziar Bahari in 2009 on charges of spying, came out a mere 18 months after Argo won Best Picture for depicting the CIA using phony filmmakers to do just that. We praise the latter without acknowledging the glaring fact that it helps set the stage for the former.

In Rosewater, Gael Garcia Bernal plays Maziar Bahari, a Western journalist held by Iran as a spy after he reports on violence against protesters.

This isn’t to suggest Iran doesn’t detain legitimate journalists and filmmakers for simply publishing uncomfortable truths—as it did in the case of Bahari and Washington Post’s Jason Rezaian in 2014—but American media’s cozy relationship with the CIA and other intelligence agencies makes the possibility of overcompensation by Iran and other unfriendly governments that much more likely, and makes the pretense that legitimate journalists are suspected of espionage that much more plausible.

Indeed, this is a position advanced by Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson, who spent six years detained by Hezbollah and now lobbies aggressively against these suspect practices. As Martha Bayles and Jeffrey Gedmin wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed last year (1/4/15):

First, such practices make honest journalism more dangerous. Ask Terry Anderson, the Associated Press reporter who in 1985 was taken captive by Hezbollah, which accused him of being a CIA agent. After being released in 1991, Anderson became an eloquent voice arguing against blurring the distinction between newsgathering and espionage.
This is not to suggest that if the CIA’s policy were less murky and problematic, the Taliban would not have murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, or the Azerbaijan ruling party would not be trying to discredit Khadija Ismayilova. But when it comes to managing risk, a definite ban on the recruitment of journalists would constitute a positive step. Not only that, but the lack of such a ban erodes the trust of America’s allies and provides fuel to its adversaries.

The same is true for filmmakers. While it appears the CIA’s involvement in the entertainment “products” revealed by Vice was to provide access in exchange for steering the message (as opposed to using the filmmakers for intelligence-gathering), the spectacle of Hollywood teaming up with US intelligence agencies to make propaganda—especially given the dodgy historical context—no doubt stokes the fears of countries already hostile to Americans within their borders.

This isn’t to say that if the CIA bans the practice of recruiting journalists and assisting the production of films, other countries still won’t be paranoid (justifiably or not), or that such a restriction would even be respected. But when the CIA blurs the lines between covert intelligence gathering and legitimate media, the reaction of media people shouldn’t be amusement, much less awards. Every time this type of behavior is normalized, or shrugged off, or made sexy, real journalists and real filmmakers overseas are put further at risk.

Adam Johnson is a contributing analyst for FAIR.org. Follow him on Twitter at @AdamJohnsonNYC.

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“I Was Literally Surrounded By Them When I Was 14” – Corey Feldman Exposes Hollywood Pedophilia

January 30, 2014 by Arjun Walia.http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/01/30/i-was-literally-surrounded-by-them-when-i-was-14-corey-feldman-exposes-hollywood-pedophilia/

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For those who haven’t already heard, Corey Feldman (arguably the biggest child actor of the 80’s) went public about being sexually abused by Hollywood moguls many times over the course of his childhood. He describes how he and fellow former child star Corey Haim were constantly fed drugs and taken advantage of. Feldman started speaking out after the death of his friend, explaining that the trauma Haim experienced as a child played a large role in his death.

This isn’t the first time an actor or actress has come out; Allison Arngrim, the former “Little House on the Prairie” star, also wrote about her own experiences in the book Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, revealing how she was abused multiple times.

Sex abuse charges have been laid many times against Hollywood employees. Martin Weiss is one of them, a 47-year-old Hollywood manager who represented several child actors. Another one is Jason James Murphy, 35, a casting agent who frequently worked with young clients.

On a personal note, based on everything I have looked at over the years I have no doubt in my mind that Hollywood is filled with pedophiles and occultists. The same group of corporations that own Hollywood also own major oil, energy, pharmaceutical companies, and more. This group controls the entire military industrial complex, including Hollywood. You can read more about that here, in an article which examines one major shareholder of the few corporations that control the entertainment industry, among others as mentioned above.

I’d also like to mention that Randy Quaid went on record saying that there are a group of “star whackers”  in Hollywood. He said that actors are killed and many others are being tampered with, and expressed his belief that Hollywood is controlled by the big bankers. This isn’t a conspiracy, I provide some links to that information in the article linked above. I also echo Roseanne Barr’s words that MK Ultra rules in Hollywood, that children within the entertainment industry are constantly subjected to trauma-based mind control on multiple levels, that they are controlled, abused, and used their entire lives.

For anybody who has researched ancient philosophy, occultism, and history, you will be aware of the disturbing practices of these secret societies. Sexual rituals described by Corey are one of many ritualistic tendencies of secret societies that still exist today.

Former Child Star Corey Feldman: Paedophilia Rampant in Hollywood

I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia. That’s the biggest problem, for children in this industry… It’s all done under the radar … it’s the big secret. I was surrounded by them when I was 14 years old … they were everywhere, like vultures. – Corey Feldman

There was a circle of older men that surrounded themselves around this group of kids, and they all had either their own power or connections to great power in the entertainment industry. – Corey Feldman

I’d like to leave you with some of these pictures taken from Disney movies. I have seen many of them, and have noticed various uses of symbolism and sexual innuendo. This is just a look at a select few. So ask yourself, what’s really going on in Hollywood? Hollywood moguls are molesting children, and they have also been using this type of imagery in many children’s movies, and continue to do so today.

Related CE Articles:

Roseane Barr “MK Ultra Rules in Hollywood”

Another Side of The Music Industry: Monarch Mind Control

Top 11 Most Blatant Illuminati Music Videos

MK Ultra: CIA Admits Behavioural Engineering On Humans

Sources:

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/recent-hollywood-pedophilia-charges-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-former-chil

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/22/corey-feldman-stops-short-of-naming-hollywood-pedophiles

Isaac Newton’s Lost Alchemy Recipe Discovered: Are ‘Magic’ & ‘Superpowers’ Just Science We Have Yet To Understand?

  http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/04/09/issac-netwons-lost-alchemy-recipe-discovered-are-magic-superpowers-just-science-we-have-yet-to-understand/  April 9, 2016 by Arjun Walia

Speaking seriously about either ‘magic’ or ‘superpowers’ will get you branded as a quack by the majority of mainstream scientists today. This is unfortunate for several reasons, most notably for the simple fact that what we perceive to be ‘superpowers’ — phenomena like telepathy, distant healing, psychokinesis, mental control over our own biology, and more — have been tested and researched, and have yielded a number of statistically significant results. The sheer volume of credible research which has been published in various peer-reviewed scientific journals on the subject is actually a bit overwhelming. Those who dismiss findings in this field as pseudoscience do not seem to be doing any research before arriving at this conclusion.

A statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine, for example, published a paper regarding mind mater research which demonstrated that the evidence of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) is significantly stronger than the statistics showing that a daily dose of aspirin helps prevent heart attack. The study also showed how parapsychological (psi) studies produced stronger results compared to the effectiveness of antiplatelets, which are a group of medicines that stop blood cells from sticking together and forming a blood clot.

There are many examples and strong results in psi. For a short list of a few (out of many) downloadable peer-reviewed journal articles reporting studies of psychic phenomena, mostly published in the 21st century, you can click HERE,

Another fact you might not be aware of is that most of our pioneering scientists were all mystics. Issaac Newton is a great example; most of his published works were classified as occult studies, but this is never mentioned in the mainstream scientific literature.

Isaac Newton And Alchemy

A 17th century document that has been held in a private collection for decades is now in the hands of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit group situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In February, they purchased the document and are now working on uploading digital images and transcripts to an online database so more people can study Newton’s take on alchemy.

According to science historian William Newman of Indiana University:

While there’s no evidence that Newton actually made sophick mercury, the manuscript will help scholars understand how he interpreted alchemy’s often deeply encoded recipes. The document also underscores the fact that Newton—a father of modern physics and co-discoverer of calculus—was greatly influenced by alchemy and his collaborations with alchemists. (source)

National Geographic goes on to emphasize how “Newton wrote more than one million words about alchemy throughout his life, in the hope of using ancient knowledge to better explain the nature of matter. . . .”

Alchemy is considered to be a philosophical tradition which has been practiced by various cultures throughout human history. Its aim was to purify, mature, perfect, and transmute certain substances like lead and precious metals into gold. It’s commonly associated with ‘the Philosopher’s Stone,’ an alchemical substance that was also capable of turning base material into gold.

The document provides details on how to make “sophick mercury,” a substance seen as a main ingredient for the Philosopher’s Stone. The stone in turn could supposedly change base metals like lead into other substances, like gold. Newton copied the recipe by hand from a text by American-born alchemist George Starkey, but there is no evidence that he was actually successful in his experiments.

Again, this type of phenomenon is well documented throughout history, which is why scientists like Isaac Newton were so interested in it. He studied alchemy in depth, and it seems he had no doubts about its merit. Unfortunately, many of his writings on alchemy have been lost, apparently burned in a laboratory accident. Further complicating matters is the fact that much of his work on the subject was actually forbidden at the time, as scientists faced punishment and censure for pursuing occult topics. The English crown even feared the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone because it would make gold — the substance they used (and still use) to control the monetary system — less valuable. All these facts are well documented. If you want to learn more or to confirm these findings for yourself, a great place to start is a documentary done by NOVA PBS, which you can access here.

Alchemy Is No Joke

Newton invented calculus, and is known (obviously) for many other things, but he is one of a long list of scientists throughout history to be heavily interested in what we often consider to be “occult studies.”
Evidence shows that alchemy may have more merit than we believe, however. Even in recent history we’ve seen heavy interest in the subject, with science historians working to decipher alchemical texts. Their task is not an easy one, however, as alchemists were obsessed with secrecy, and they would purposefully describe their experiments in figurative language.
Smithsonian Magazine tells us more about modern historical attempts to decipher these texts:

This painstaking process of decoding allowed researchers, for the first time, to attempt ambitious alchemical experiments. Lawrence Principe, a chemist and science historian at Johns Hopkins University, cobbled together obscure texts and scraps of 17th-century laboratory notebooks to reconstruct a recipe to grow a “Philosophers’ Tree” from a seed of gold. Supposedly this tree was a precursor to the more celebrated and elusive Philosopher’s Stone, which would be able to transmute metals into gold. The use of gold to make more gold would have seemed entirely logical to alchemists, Principe explains, like using germs of wheat to grow an entire field of wheat.

Again, there are multiple examples throughout ancient and modern history; even Robert Boyle, one of the 17th-century founders of modern chemistry, scavenged the work of German physician and alchemist Daniel Sennert.
I am going to leave you with this little excerpt from a book titled The Secret Teachings of All Ages, written by Manly P. Hall, a scholar of occult studies and a 33rd degree Mason:

The alchemical philosophers used the symbols of salt, sulphur, and mercury to represent not only chemicals but the spiritual and invisible principles of God, man and the universe. The three substances existing in four worlds, with the sum adding up to the sacred number 12. These 12 are the foundation stones of the sacred city.  In line with the same idea Pythagoras asserted that the dodecahedron, or twelve-faved symmetrical geometric solid, was the foundation of the universe.  Maybe there not be a relation also between this mysterious 3 times 4 and the four parties o three which in the legend of the third degree of Freemasonry go forth to the four angels of the cherubim, the composite creature of four parts?
As one of the great alchemists fittingly observed, man’s quest for gold is often his undoing, for he mistakes the alchemical processes, believing them to be purely material. He does not realize that the Philosopher’s Golf, the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Philosopher’s Medicine exist in each of the four worlds and that the consummation of the experiment cannot be realized until it is successfully carried on in four worlds simultaneously according to one formula. Furthermore, one of the constituents of the alchemical formula exists only within the nature of man himself, without which his chemicals will not combine, and though he spend his life and fortune in chemical experimentation, he will not produce the desired end. The paramount reason why the material scientist is incapable of uplifting the achievements of the mediaeval alchemists – although he follow every step carefully and accurately – is that the subtle element which comes out of the nature of the illuminated and regenerated alchemical philosopher is missing in his experimentation
This is the strength of all powers. This is a very strong figure, that does positively posses all the powers concealed in Nature, not for destruction but for exaltation and regeneration of matter, in the three departments of nature. With all this thous wilt be able to overcome all things, and to transmute all what is fine and what is corse. It will conquer every subtle thing, of course, as it refixes the most subtle Oxygen into its own fiery Nature and that with more power, penetration and virtue
The Philosophers stone is really the philosopher’s stone, for philosophy is truly likened to a magic jewel whose touch transmutes base substances into priceless gems like itself. Wisdom is the alchemist’s powder of projection which transforms which transforms many thousand times its own weight of gross ignorance into the precious substance of enlightenment
The Philosophers stone contains all the powers of nature, it is established by the harmony of the four elements