Product Details

• Directors: Allan Francovich
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Mpi Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 67 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300200191
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #40,172 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

• This is item 3 in The Inside the CIA Series.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover
The Central intelligence Agency is the government's most controversial branch-with a controversial mission to match. This clandestine mission to match. This clandestine organization'' secret methods and undefined goals have been the topic of much speculation…until now! Inside the CIA: On Company Business is a long and penetrating look inside one of the world's most powerful secret organizations. This long suppressed, award-winning tape shows you the CIA of today and its role in the political intrigues of the recent past.

Part 3 - Subversion

The CIA has two goals: gathering information and influencing the balance of world power. When a world leader's policies did not match those of the CIA, the "Company" used subversion to topple or destabilize the government. This could mean restoring the Shah of Iran to power, overthrowing Chile's Marxist government, and continuously destabilizing Latin American politics.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enlighting, December 27, 2004

By	Benjamin R. James "Jmsb01" (Monticello, Mn. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this tape very informative with the first hand accounts of past agents. I wish there had been more investgative reporting on the ties the CIA has with world wide drug trafficing, and but it does show its close ties with world wide terrorists and terrorism.

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative and disturbing, December 14, 2006

By	Amazon customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside the CIA On Company Business Part 1 - The History [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A bold and upfront explanation of the real aims of covert U.S. foreign policy since World War II. Directed by Allan Francovich, also director of Houses are Full of Smoke. After World War II, the CIA was established not so much to fight Communism, as was often stated, but rather to undermine or overthrow any government and foreign political movements that got in the way of U.S. business interests and U.S. access to these foreign countries' natural resources. Undermining economies, spreading propaganda, and intimidation through torture and assassination were our tactics. The `dirty work' was generally carried out by local criminals who had no idea why they were hired to do what they were doing. This way the CIA operatives kept their hands clean and were not the objects of retaliation. Although we were much kinder on our allies (most of Western Europe) we did try very hard to destroy the European left, which was very strong after WWII. For example, the CIA hired the Corsican mafia to break up labor unions in Southern Italy because we felt the unions were becoming too powerful. The documentary is essentially narrated by former CIA agents who tell their stories, many of whom have also written books about their experiences with the agency. The most controversial figure is Philip Agee who had his U.S. passport taken away for revealing the names of certain CIA agents (apparently this is an act of treason, although when the Bush administration did it to take revenge on Joe Wilson for telling the U.S. that Saddam Hussein was not a threat to U.S. security, it was ok). There is also an interview with a hired assassin, or mercenary, almost too strange to believe.

I give it four stars, rather than five, because of the editing. Sometimes it lacks some coherency (a narrator may have helped this) and the subtitles, when they appear, are often cut off at the bottom of the screen.

This review refers to all three volumes of this documentary.