Foundation for Economic Education | The CIA is NOTHING like Mission: Impossible @FEEonline | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
Hot take incoming: Tom Cruise may be the best action star of all time. Likewise, Mission Impossible may be the best action series of all time. But despite the entertaining, competent, “good guy” government agent persona, Tom Cruise’s character “Ethan Hunt” would likely be a murderous psychopath in real life…
In reality, the CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, and other clandestine agencies have a horrific track record of depraved inhumanity and downright incompetency. Let’s take a look at their dismal track records on this episode of Out of Frame.
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Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Abby Richardson
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LINKS:
– Foreign Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/sep/09/georgi-markov-killed-poisoned-umbrella-london-1978
washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/13/russia-has-a-long-history-of-eliminating-enemies-of-the-state
justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-working-ministry-state-security-charged-global-computer-intrusion
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/six-u-s-state-networks-hacked-by-chinese-spies-report-finds
thediplomat.com/2022/03/us-alleges-transnational-repression-scheme-involving-chinas-secret-police
bbc.com/news/world-asia-61413335
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/arrests-in-hong-kong-as-world-marks-tiananmen-square-anniversary
fee.org/articles/10-terrifying-facts-about-the-east-german-secret-police
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/15/mi6-kept-quiet-about-criminality-of-agent-with-licence-to-kill
theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/mi5-chief-right-to-be-disgusted-over-mi6-role-rendition-blair
aljazeera.com/news/2013/12/18/britains-mi6-linked-to-libya-torture-scandal
bbc.com/news/uk-55340234
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/02/israels-hit-squads/307973
– Domestic Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1
fee.org/articles/mass-surveillance-is-spreading-along-with-covid-19
fee.org/articles/6-things-we-know-about-the-cia-s-secret-mass-surveillance-program
cjr.org/the_feature/jfk_new_york_times_surveillance.php
theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html
npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/doctors-aided-cia-torture-records-show
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8050930.stm
vox.com/videos/2022/2/2/22914686/guantanamo-bay-military-prison-closure
ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack
statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports
wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to
government.defenceindex.org/#intro
city-journal.org/html/hidden-history-evil-13281.html
freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/01/defense-fbi-made-up-whitmer-kidnap-plot-build-their-careers/7249153001
foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/1991-12-01/intelligence-failure-pearl-harbor
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850608908435120?journalCode=ujic20
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/65vn-5.htm
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/#doc13
jstor.org/stable/2600234
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html
9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
aei.org/op-eds/dont-ignore-the-cias-intelligence-failure-on-afghanistan
amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPZ8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Hot take incoming: Tom Cruise may be the best action star of all time. Likewise, Mission Impossible may be the best action series of all time. But despite the entertaining, competent, “good guy” government agent persona, Tom Cruise’s character “Ethan Hunt” would likely be a murderous psychopath in real life…
In reality, the CIA, FBI, NSA, MI6, and other clandestine agencies have a horrific track record of depraved inhumanity and downright incompetency. Let’s take a look at their dismal track records on this episode of Out of Frame.
______________________________
FOLLOW/SUPPORT US:
Support Out of Frame on Patreon or SubscribeStar:
patreon.com/OutofFrameShow
subscribestar.com/outofframeshow
Join our Discord: discord.gg/RKc4AcGQ9k
Watch our newest video, "The Meaning of Everything Everywhere All At Once": youtu.be/PFhHAmylYo4
Check out our new short “This is What Peak Streaming Looks Like.”: youtube.com/shorts/IhdsYnhAUi4?feature=share
Sign up for our mailing list and never miss an episode again:
fee.org/oof-newsletter
Check out our podcast, Out of Frame: Behind the Scenes: youtube.com/channel/UCiS5rEmhnLwo1IG9bgr19Og
Follow us EVERYWHERE!
https://linktr.ee/outofframefee
______________________________
CREDITS:
Written by Sean W. Malone & Jen Maffessanti
Produced by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Michael Ozias
Asst. Edited by Abby Richardson
______________________________
LINKS:
– Foreign Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/sep/09/georgi-markov-killed-poisoned-umbrella-london-1978
washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/03/13/russia-has-a-long-history-of-eliminating-enemies-of-the-state
justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-working-ministry-state-security-charged-global-computer-intrusion
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/six-u-s-state-networks-hacked-by-chinese-spies-report-finds
thediplomat.com/2022/03/us-alleges-transnational-repression-scheme-involving-chinas-secret-police
bbc.com/news/world-asia-61413335
theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/arrests-in-hong-kong-as-world-marks-tiananmen-square-anniversary
fee.org/articles/10-terrifying-facts-about-the-east-german-secret-police
theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/15/mi6-kept-quiet-about-criminality-of-agent-with-licence-to-kill
theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/mi5-chief-right-to-be-disgusted-over-mi6-role-rendition-blair
aljazeera.com/news/2013/12/18/britains-mi6-linked-to-libya-torture-scandal
bbc.com/news/uk-55340234
theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/02/israels-hit-squads/307973
– Domestic Agency Evils/Crimes/Failures –
theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded#section/1
fee.org/articles/mass-surveillance-is-spreading-along-with-covid-19
fee.org/articles/6-things-we-know-about-the-cia-s-secret-mass-surveillance-program
cjr.org/the_feature/jfk_new_york_times_surveillance.php
theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
nytimes.com/2014/10/27/us/in-cold-war-us-spy-agencies-used-1000-nazis.html
npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/doctors-aided-cia-torture-records-show
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8050930.stm
vox.com/videos/2022/2/2/22914686/guantanamo-bay-military-prison-closure
ips-dc.org/the_cia_contras_gangs_and_crack
statista.com/chart/18417/global-weapons-exports
wilsoncenter.org/event/ghost-wars-the-secret-history-the-cia-afghanistan-and-bin-laden-the-soviet-invasion-to
government.defenceindex.org/#intro
city-journal.org/html/hidden-history-evil-13281.html
freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/04/01/defense-fbi-made-up-whitmer-kidnap-plot-build-their-careers/7249153001
foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/1991-12-01/intelligence-failure-pearl-harbor
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850608908435120?journalCode=ujic20
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/65vn-5.htm
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/#doc13
jstor.org/stable/2600234
pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html
9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Exec.htm
aei.org/op-eds/dont-ignore-the-cias-intelligence-failure-on-afghanistan
amazon.com/dp/B0010SIPZ8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
