[D66] [JD: 97] Docu: The Science of Spying (1965)

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  The Science of Spying (1965) | Cold War TV Documentary

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This film presents an account of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
activities that had previously been covert, including actions in Iran,
Vietnam, Laos, the Congo, Cuba, and Guatemala. The film includes
interviews with CIA director Allen Dulles and Dick Bissel. From
archive.org/US National Archives. #### As described in the book, Into
the Fray: How NBC's Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News By
Tom Mascaro https://www.amazon.com/Into-Fray-Wash...
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Science of Spying, marked the arrival of Bob Rogers as a field
reporter-producer. The program aired May 4, 1965, and tracked the roots
of U.S. covert operations back to the 1950s, providing a stark account
of clandestine initiatives in a time before public disclosures,
congressional investigations, and Hollywood movies made the 1970s a
difficult time to be an American spy. The "Pentagon Papers," the Pike
and Church Committees, and thrillers such as Three Days of the Condor
eventually revealed the CIA's complicity in assassination plots and
interna-tional meddling, which Yates and Rogers had already seen up
close. NBC management stood firm when The Science of Spying attracted
criti-cism. Ad reps from Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBD&O)
screened it and advised their client B. F. Goodrich Company to
withdraw.31 BBD&O issued a statement saying the program violated the
Goodrich advertising policy "in that it treats a controversial public
issue in a way which may do harm to the government of the United
States?" NBC countered that the documentary "fell within the broad
outlines of the program policy origi-nally submitted to and accepted by
the B. F. Goodrich agency, BBD&O."33 The CIA watched the program and
tracked subsequent reactions in the national press. Viewers wrote to
President Johnson complaining NBC News had given America's enemies
negative propaganda.34 Yates may have antici-pated some adverse
reactions to the program, but he never expected to be frightened by what
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