ClandesTime

ClandesTime

Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.

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November 12, 2023

The CIA’s Museum is a monument to lies, murder and secret power. Not officially, of course, they use much prettier...

The post ClandesTime 258 – The CIA Museum first appeared on Spy Culture.

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How do you hold the police accountable if Internal Affairs are corrupt?  That’s the core question in The Shield season...

The post Subscribercast #81 – The Shield Season Five first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. the Unabomber died earlier this year. As a tribute, in this episode we look at the latest...

The post ClandesTime 257 – Was the Unabomber Wrong? first appeared on Spy Culture.

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In this special report we examine the documentary accusing celebrity Russell Brand of sex crimes. We look at the troubling...

The post ClandesTime Special – The Russell Brand Allegations first appeared on Spy Culture.

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One thing the Pentagon love to do is ‘showcase’ absurdly costly technologies to the public. This military product placement helps...

The post ClandesTime 256 – Military-Industrial Product Placement first appeared on Spy Cu...

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Should the government be allowed to seize people’s property because they think it was bought with the profits from crime? ...

The post Subscribercast #80 – The Shield Season Four first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Life is like this sometimes: you wait ages for a movie to take corporate personhood and turn it into the...

The post ClandesTime 255 – Cultural Capitalism: Air vs Tetris vs Blackberry first appeared on Spy Culture.

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September 3, 2023

Reality Winner was an NSA contractor who leaked a single document to The Intercept, and received a five year prison...

The post ClandesTime 254 – Reality first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The Department of Justice’s office of public affairs is the nation’s hub for information on true crime. In this episode...

The post Subscribercast #79 – How the Department of Justice Manipulates the News Media first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Amazon have finally pulled the plug on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, going out with a smudged inkblot of a final...

The post ClandesTime 253 – Jack Ryan Season Four (and Specials Ops: Lioness) first appeared on Spy Culture.

The Mafia. Hollywood starlets. Foreign leaders. Fake sex tapes. Illegal surveillance. Watergate. The CIA. And Howard Hughes. Robert Maheu’s life...

The post ClandesTime 252 – Robert Maheu: The CIA’s Fixer in Hollywood first appeared on...

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You know how it goes: you wait years for a movie that reframes the war in Afghanistan as a Saving...

The post ClandesTime 251 – Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant vs Kandahar first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Did Joe Colombo approve the script for The Godfather? Was Dorothy Hunt murdered by the CIA as part of the...

The post Subscribercast #78 – White House Plumbers vs The Offer first appeared on Spy Culture.

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1996’s Independence Day is corny, schlocky, nationalistic and pro-nuclear weapons. So how did it end up being rejected by the...

The post ClandesTime 250 – Independence Day vs The Pentagon first appeared on Spy Culture.

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Desert Storm. A female Army Captain. Friendly fire killings. Mutiny. White Phosphorous. Lies and cover-ups. The story of the writing,...

The post ClandesTime 249 – Courage Under Fire first appeared on Spy Culture.

In this subscribercast we examine how the season-long arc in The Shield is a metaphor for the legacy of Iran-Contra,...

The post Subscribercast #77 – The Shield Season 3 first appeared on Spy Culture.

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The CIA helps to make movies, but what does it think of them? In this episode we delve into how...

The post ClandesTime 248 – The CIA on The CIA in Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

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What does the Deputy Director of the CIA think about spy movies? And what about the founders of the first...

The post Subscribercast #76 – More of the CIA on the CIA in Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.

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When it comes to black operations during the Vietnam War, the Phoenix Program (and its parallels and predecessors) is legendary...

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The public inquiry into the 2017 Manchester bombing recently published its full and final report. In this episode, we take...

The post ClandesTime 246 – The Manchester Bombing Inquiry first appeared on Spy Culture.

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