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The Man Nobody Knew
Netflix: The Man Nobody Knew | 29 June 2013 | Steely

Posted on 06/29/2013 9:25:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom

Of current interest.


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: colby; vanity; williamcolby
Those who have access to Netflix may find this documentary to be topical.

It concerns the life of William E Colby, who served as Director of CIA during the period of the Church Committee investigation.

In it you will see footage of some of the most liberal members of the Congress at that time railing against the possibility that the CIA was being used to forward the political agenda of the executive branch.

You will also see and hear these same individuals expressing horror that - in the course of the pursuit of these political goals - the CIA might have tapped the telephones of American citizens.

1 posted on 06/29/2013 9:25:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

The CIA. You don’t know. You don’t want to know.


2 posted on 06/29/2013 9:29:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Steely Tom
Silly me. I thought you were talking about this guy.

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3 posted on 06/29/2013 9:44:10 AM PDT by newheart (The worst thing the Left ever did was to convince the world it was not a religion.)
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To: Steely Tom

Church Committee = 1975. Director Colby eventually replaced by George H.W. Bush.


4 posted on 06/29/2013 9:46:06 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I have no idea about this, so for those more “in the know”,
what order would you list as the most dangerous and most likely to really run this country? Would the CIA prevent a military coup? FBI stronger than DHS?


5 posted on 06/29/2013 9:48:57 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st

Nowadays, I would fear the DHS and the IRS over any other FedGov brownshirts.


6 posted on 06/29/2013 9:54:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! SaIf betwee Bidenme Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Steely Tom

I see that this was produced by Colby’s son. Do you think that it was objective?


7 posted on 06/29/2013 9:55:34 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Gadsden1st
Would the CIA prevent a military coup?

I think it is more likely the CIA would aid and abet it. Of course, the DIA and NSA need to be figured into that equation as well.

8 posted on 06/29/2013 10:03:00 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: iowamark

Well, as you said, it was produced his son.

By the standards of our present-day MSM, Walter Cronkite’s old series “The 20th Century” would be said to be hopelessly biased, because it failed to portray the United States as the cause of all the problems of the world.

I thought it was highly informative and factual.

No one who hated Mr Colby sat for an interview with Carl Colby. However, media coverage of such persons was included.


9 posted on 06/29/2013 10:04:25 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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10 posted on 06/29/2013 11:23:21 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Liberty Valance

U.S. Senator Frank Church and William E. Colby, Director, CIA

11 posted on 06/29/2013 11:35:46 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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