Joe Frady Acted Alone to Expose America's Secret Intelligence Agencies

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Six months after the Paralex View, Senator Frank Church launched his investigation into America's secret intelligence agencies. It was the secret surveillance and data collection programs that frightened Frank Church most. In September 1975, a month after Frank Church delivered that warning on TV, Hollywood presented audiences with its vision of America's secret capabilities.

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.