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Conspiracy The Secret History, Vol. 2 - The Secret Heartbeat of America: The CIA and Drugs [VHS]

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For those of us who have been following the Contra/coke/Mena story for awhile, this film is mostly a rehash of material to be found elsewhere, butchered with clumsy editing, and strung together with an annoying, smarmy narration. The film contains a great deal of material which is repetitive or irrelevant, and the narration does little to tie together a film that lacks focus and fails to deliver on it's promises. What is really frustrating about this work is the fact that there is a great deal of interesting material to cover, and the film makers apparently had access to excellent primary and secondary sources - people like Russell Welch, Jean Duffey, Linda Ives, and Billy Bottoms, and others - but failed to present them in a coherent and believable fashion. A good documentary should be carried by the interviews and source material, not by the narration, yet in this film I found many scenes where I wished the narrator would shut up and let the interviewee speak. Many interesting story lines - Welch's illness, Terry Reed's story, Seal's connections to the White House, the story of Seal's assassination - are never developed, and interesting witnesses are introduced, then not interviewed effectively.

For the person who doesn't realize what their government has been up to for so many years. Hate to say to much as I do not want to givr the plot away. A very informative read, about our country.