The CIA's Murderous Conspiracy

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In the novel that the movie's based on, Agent Condor kills the Max von Sidenhu assassin who's hunting him. But this is not how the movie ends. In the film, the CIA chooses to protect their secrets by killing the agents in charge of the conspiracy. An odd resonance with the parallax view.

A remixed complete version of our two part Watergate series from last year: Journalists may write the first draft of history but Hollywood prints the legends and the myths. The 1976 film All the President’s Men remains our most authoritative account of Watergate. The film is also responsible for the myth of Deep Throat. Your host follows the myth… from 1976 to the present. Plus a reporter from the Washington Post newsroom who never made it into All the President’s Men yet did more to safeguard the free press and American democracy than Woodstein ever did.