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tom hanks is a CIA asset: a potential timeline

HANKS=CIA

my theory (read notes)

is it coincidence this bland, beloved, so very mainstream actor-slash-kennedy center honoree - "america's dad" - happens to reinforce all the lies of american empire? sure, status quo is the status quo because its the status quo & hanks could just be an und normie history buff who loves space shit + hangin w/ his well-connected zillionaire pals but - if he was on the payroll, what would he do differently? just asking

"Tom Hanks was just 12 years old in the crucial, difficult year of 1968, but at least one portion of his memories of those times is crystal clear. ''Our world was very, very polarized,'' Mr. Hanks said in a recent interview. ''If you…

Mazes and Monsters

proto-satanic panic

At this year’s SXSW, the CIA debuted a series of internal training board games, card games, and RPGs that are used to train officers in the art of intelligence gathering and problem-solving. These include Collection, a Pandemic-like board game where analysts collaborate to solve international crises, and Collection Deck, a card game where mazes and monsters are replaced by satellite photos and government red tape.

io9.gizmodo.com/the-cia-is-training-its-officers-with-d-d-style-tableto-1793295549

RPGs have been used by certain factions to instill deeply dissociative states in people for various purposes, some of which may involve entity possession.

secretsun.blogspot.com/2023/04/rpg-ultra-hey-kids-wanna-get-possessed.html

The Man with One Red Shoe

hanks "mistaken" for CIA

One of the first films to be made with the help of former CIA officers was 1985’s The Man With One Red Shoe. Documents in the CIA’s CREST database show that they were monitoring production of the film. Two transcripts of episodes of Morning Edition on WAMU-FM were produced for the Agency by Radio TV Reports Inc. – a firm the CIA used for decades to monitor media coverage. One transcript was of a segment based around an interview with Polly Dean, one of the former CIA officers who worked on the film after being recruited by Robert Cort – himself a former Agency officer.

www.spyculture.com/man-one-red-shoe/

hanks instagram features pictures of lost & abandoned shoes - www.dailycal.org/2017/07/11/tom-hanks-instagram-national-treasure/ - (and once, theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/ )

Apollo 13

Bobbie Faye Ferguson, the Homeland Security Department's new entertainment-industry liaison, says "people in Hollywood or New York or London are going to make movies and TV programs with us or without us. But by participating, we have an opportunity to at least assist them to make their product better." She started NASA's liaison office in 1997. There, she worked on movies such as Space Cowboys, Armageddon and the IMAX version of Apollo 13.

usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/2005-03-07-hollywood-pentagon_x.htm

Saving Private Ryan

military/OSS propaganda

DoD Honors "Private Ryan" Director Spielberg
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 1999 – Defense Secretary William S. Cohen presented the Defense Department's highest civilian award to director Steven Spielberg at an Aug. 11 ceremony here.

A military honor cordon welcomed Spielberg to the Pentagon, where he received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his 1998 film "Saving Private Ryan." The movie sparked national awareness of the World War II generation's sacrifices. Cohen said it helped reconnect the American public with the nation's men and women in uniform.

Catch Me If You Can

spielberg cast CIA asset jennifer garner after seeing her on the CIA consulted "alias"

www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/press-release-archive-2004/pr03082004.html

The CIA Recruitment Center has posted a new video on the CIA Careers website featuring Jennifer Garner, Emmy-award winning actress and star of ABC's television series "Alias." The video emphasizes the CIA's mission, and its need for people with diverse backgrounds and foreign language skills. Ms. Garner was excited to participate in the video after being asked by the Office of Public Affairs. The CIA's Film Industry Liaison worked with the writers of "Alias" during the first season to educate them on fundamental tradecraft.

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

"But the paradox, Mr. Hanks and Mr. Grazer said, was that no matter how thrilling the space program seemed at certain moments, it felt at the time almost like a footnote in the face of the great social and political events of the era. That seems to be true for many baby boomers."

hmm why would the CIA want to deemphasize the "social and political events" of the 60s hmmmmmm

starring tim matheson, director of "in the company of spies"

Never before has the CIA so fully embraced a movie--it even allowed director Tim Matheson to shoot inside the agency's sprawling Langley headquarters and provided 60 off-duty employees to serve as extras.

"They were great to work with," Tenet said. "They portray us in a good light, and I want the American people to know the values we believe in. Our work is secret and it will always be secret. But every now and then, we should take the opportunity to portray ourselves. A little bit of fun--there's nothing wrong with that."

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/14/029r-101499-idx.html

Charlie Wilson's War

hanks plays CIA asset, in propaganda dropped right when public opinion had turned against the occupation of afghanistan

agent milt bearden (trained the mujahedeen) "worked with director Mike Nichols on the film" and is credited as the film's "advisor: CIA"

"Here's my job description from 1986 to 1989," Bearden says. "Channel weapons and training to the Afghan resistance so they may kill enough troops from the Soviet army to force Moscow to withdraw." Former CIA director Bill Casey gave him a billion dollars a year (with the Saudis kicking in half), he says, "and I bought the real deal: antiaircraft Stinger missiles. That was one of the luckiest jobs in my life. We started clobbering the Russians, just hammered them, until they declared they're out of there."

www.spyculture.com/cia-rewrite-charlie-wilsons-war/

consortiumnews.com/2013/04/07/hollywoods-dangerous-afghan-illusion/

NEED TO DIG INTO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_Media / jeffrey skoll (ebay, omidyar, pez story) / green book/roma / list of docs (!!)

porkinspolicyreview.com/tag/charlie-wilsons-war/

"According to Melissa Roddy, a Los Angeles film maker with inside information from the production, the film's happy ending where Wilson receives an award came about because Tom Hanks did not feel comfortable with an original draft which ended on a scene featuring the September 11 attacks"

The Simpsons Movie

a controlled hangout

"I'm Tom Hanks. The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine"

Game Change

written by CIA running dogs mark halperin & john heilemann

The Road We've Traveled

Guggenheim is the only filmmaker to release three different documentaries that were ranked within the top 100 highest-grossing documentaries of all time (An Inconvenient Truth, It Might Get Loud, and Waiting for "Superman").

Philip Davis Guggenheim was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Marion Davis (née Streett) and filmmaker Charles Guggenheim.

Senator Barack Obama broadcast a half-hour prime time infomercial on Wednesday on three of the major broadcast networks — Fox, NBC and CBS — as well as Univision, BET, TV One and MSNBC. It was the first program of its kind in 16 years.

Taking over a huge chunk of the television dial in an effort to make a closing sale with an audience that was likely to be well into the millions. And like the gambits before it, the ment held risks just by definition of what it was: A giant financial outlay that made Mr. Obama almost unavoidable to television viewers who are by now weary from all these many months of politicking.

Because Mr. Obama is already running the most intensive and wide-ranging presidential advertising campaign in history, with electronic billboards for his candidacy showing up even in home video games, it raised the obvious question, “How much is too much?” With a heavy-handed style of filmmaking devised to pull at heart strings as Mr. Obama ticked through the commercial’s hard-luck stories, it risked seeming manipulative.

web.archive.org/web/20120406055159/https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/the-ad-campaign-an-obama-infomercial-big-glossy-and-almost-unavoidable/

www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-gates-foundation-philanthropy/

Bridge of Spies

hanks plays CIA agent (& attemped castro murderer) james donovan in yet another spielberg collabo about the negotiations for the release of gary powers (who blamed lee harvey oswald for his capture)

"The one point that I should make is that the central character played by Tom Hanks is rather similar to the character he played in Charlie Wilson’s War, inasmuch as he’s obviously a CIA asset but the film goes to great lengths to downplay and disguise and minimise that fact. And given that Charlie Wilson’s War was a CIA-assisted production, this one potentially and probably was too, and was certainly a DOD-assisted production – they filmed on a DOD air base."

bono's daughter eve hewson plays hanks' daughter in this film literally about the real U-2:

www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movie-news/bonos-girl-eve-to--spielberg-and-hanks-in-new-film-30452259.html

secretsun.blogspot.com/2022/08/u2-what-thou-wilt-shall-be-whole-of-law.html

Sully

my fav theory on this is that its descredits speculation on twa flight 800 but yeah havent seen it

Inferno

hanks & ron howard adapted 3 of dan brown's 4 novels in this series, skipping the 3rd novel to film this one based on the 4th. the subject of the 3rd novel they skipped, "the lost symbol"?? the CIA

The Post

Daniel Ellsberg, who worked at the Rand Corporation, a CIA-funded group, was in and out of the Marine Corps for thirteen years and suddenly arrived and said he's been redeemed and accused the Army of ruling the country. The Army. Not the CIA. The Army. Who does the CIA speak for? The American financial establishment. And where did Ellsberg speak? He spoke in the New York Times, which is more of a financial tribunal than the Wall Street Journal, if the truth were known, or if the papers were read from cover to cover. Ellsberg was immediately accepted by the liberals, who don't ever ask for credentials. The left is lovely: You say to them, "I'm turning you in," and they say, "Will you ride to the station with me?" Ellsberg was immediately accepted because the liberals were starved for heroes, obviously. He went on to discredit the Army, and the concert goes on in the Times, an orchestrated scenario. Officers' enlistments are down; the soldiers smoke dope; officers are being fragged by their subordinates. A discreditation of the Army. At the same time, coincidentally, General Abrams caught the Green Berets working for the CIA, killing a double agent and…

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

hanks has been going around telling anybody who'll listen (especially the agency's washington post) that his new movie is the antidote for "cynicism" (by which he means any skepticism of elites):

Tom Hanks has said the increasing level of cynicism in society is partly what led him to take a role as a loveable children's entertainer.

The actor plays Fred Rogers in his new movie - a legendary US kids TV host whose brand was wholesome and warm.

"Cynicism has become the default position for so much of daily structure and daily intercourse," Hanks told reporters.

He added: "Cynicism is a great product to sell, and it's the perfect beginning of any examination of anything. And part of that is conspiracy theories and what have you.

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-49555613

60s revisionist hanks' choice of date for the release of this film? 11/22

www.nbhiladelphia.com/news/local/Deadly-Mister-Rogers-Film-Fall-497184711.html

News of the World

Wapping, East London is home to both the former office of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper 'News of the World' and a pub called Captain Kidd, named after the Scottish pirate who was executed in there in 1701.

Captain Kidd does his Dallas reading in a what appears to be a Masonic meeting room.

www.imdb.com/title/tt6878306/trivia/

Kimi
★★★★½

The notes for this film reportedly contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Asteroid City
★★★½

covid patient zero hanks under military quarantine in a project bluebeam situation