Recently released documents on former White House consultant and MPAA [Motion Picture Association of America] capo Jack Valenti strongly suggest that his appointment as president of the MPAA in some way involved the CIA. The new documents on Valenti come from the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] and the State Department. Though they are tiny fragments in themselves the details they do contain are eye-opening. Valenti was a State Department consultant with a Top Secret clearance in the early months of taking over at the MPAA. At the same the CIA were interested in Valenti 'in connection with certain sensitive matters'. [...]
The files of the Office of Security (SY) Department of State, reviewed by Special Agent (redacted) on October 11, 1974, disclose that on 5/5/66 the appointee was under consideration for appointment as a Consultant to the Secretary of State; SY in May 1966 reviewed his personnel and security files at the White House and utilized a previous full field investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SY granted him Final Clearance for Top Secret on 5/25/66 as a Consultant, valid for 180 days only, unless appointed in the meantime: SY again granted him Final Clearance for Top Secret on 5/31/67 as a Member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships.
It was announced in April 1966 that Valenti would be leaving his White House position to take up the vacant job as head of the MPAA, so why was he simultaneously being granted a Top Secret security clearance? Valenti began his new job in June so he was a consultant to the State Department in the early months of his new job at the MPAA.
While this was going on the CIA's Office of Personnel Security sent a memo to Marvin Watson, a special assistant to President Johnson. [...]
Subject is of interest to this Division. He is not being considered for staff employment but rather is of interest in connection with certain sensitive matters in which the Agency is involved.
Naturally, this could mean anything. But the date is significant – after Valenti's new job at the MPAA had been announced but before he took up the role. This cannot be related to his role at the State Department because they had reviewed the FBI's investigation for themselves.
Related: Eric Johnston and the CIA
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:15PM
The MPAA in cahoots with the government? How shocking...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @07:01PM
What better way to program (brainwash) and manipulate an entire country than to use television programming and movies as the medium.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:02PM
(Score: 4, Funny) by butthurt on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:17PM
Greenwald Calls Out CIA Funded NPR Propaganda [soylentnews.org] (notice how the URL ends in 3222)
CIA Inspector General’s Report on Engagement with the Entertainment Industry [soylentnews.org] (different story about the CIA, but again the URL ends in 3222!)
Modern Art Was CIA 'Weapon' [soylentnews.org] (332 in the URL)
CIA Refuses to Release Bin Laden's Porn Collection [soylentnews.org] (23 in the URL)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 24 2016, @09:27AM
Unconvincing. Now, if they had all ended in 42 ...
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 23 2016, @09:56PM
We've always suspected that the CIA and mafia were in cahoots.
Turns out it was actually the CIA and the MAFIAA! [mafiaa.org]
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 24 2016, @02:19PM
The mafia may resent your comments. Associating its clean image of heartless assassins, pimps and blackmailers with the CIA and the MPAA is clearly unfair.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday July 24 2016, @02:14PM
the blue pill -> the entertainment industry is a bunch of people whose career is based on talent and some luck, for the public to feel emotion and the occasional thinking on issues that they deem important. CIA is afraid there are too many commies so enlisted this guy whose name would be good for an episode of the Sopranos.
the red pill -> art has always been at the service of the powerful, successful art is propaganda, that MPAA jack guy was not high enough of a mason that they had to enlist him in the CIA instead.
pick.
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Monday July 25 2016, @05:52AM
How better to coerce the public into bringing a backdoor into their system than to require them to install a "licensed" proprietary codec whose ulterior motives will remain undisclosed thanks to the reverse-engineering provisions of the DMCA?
Wanna view the latest content? Just download this codec, which is required, and install it. Free!
The Congress we voted into office has already passed law saying we can't protect ourselves by transcoding the content into a trusted container.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]