Inside The CIA

$29.95
Know your enemy (and your friends, for that matter). That is the premise behind America's Central Intelligence Agency. And in its overt and covert global pursuit of information vital to the national interest, the authority and supervision of this shadowy organization has often been shrouded in mystery and cloaked in controversy.

The CIA has been an active, although surreptitious, participant in every American conflict since WWII, and has undertaken countless unknowable operations outside the obvious war zones. Inside The CIA is the ultimate behind-the-scenes tour of the ultimate behind-the-scenes organization.

With this comprehensive collection of documentaries, History® reveals little-known Agency history and reveals the techniques and tactics of information-gathering. Discover the who, how and, most intriguingly, why, on this definitive tour.

  • CIA and the Nazis: Discover through declassified documents how former Nazis went to work for the U.S. government, without the public's knowledge, to help fight the Soviet Union.
  • CIA Secret Airline: From its origins with the legendary Flying Tigers of WWII to the final days of the Vietnam War, Air America is one of the most clandestine operations in CIA history.
  • Shadow Warriors: Revisit the secret CIA operation in occupied Afghanistan where operatives trained resistance fighters based out of the CIA's field office in Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • Mind Control: America's Secret War: For decades, the CIA has worked virtually non-stop to perfect means of controlling the human mind. But while many have suspected the existence of these projects, the details have long been preserved - till now!
  • We Can Make You Talk: The treatment of suspects held at Guantanamo Bay has sparked a firestorm of controversy, much centering around the methods that military investigators use to extract information from these putative terrorists. Discover the development of interrogation techniques and how suspects surrender information.

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SpecificationsHistory Channel, 2008
2 DVDs
300 minutes, narrated