CIA: Guerres secrètes (2003) User Reviews (3)

Scary and thought provoking

[eskjellum · 9/10 · 13 October 2003]

If this documentary is totally accurate (I assume most aren't), then the truth behind US intelligence and foreign policy is far more sinister than even I thought possible. I can only pray that as many Americans as possible see this, so that they can realize that every enemy USA have had after WW2 have been by their own creation. The American power apparatus is not fighting external threats - it is fighting itself.

There are some truly tragic people interviewed in this documentary. They look like living dead, like the entire burden of the future of the world has been put upon their shoulders, only because they have walked through the halls of power a good few too many times. Disturbingly, for some of these people, the future of the world is indeed resting on their shoulders, but they appear too busy fighting imaginary enemies and pursuing their own selfish interests to do anything about it.

The documentary shows that with every action taken by the powers that be 'for the safety of the people', the less safe the people become. Obviously, brainwashed by bureacracy, power and the hunger for money they don't realize that (and only a miracle can change that), but for us mere mortals, it is a valuable contribution and a bit of an eye-opener. Watch at your first opportunity, especially Americans. Just don't dismiss it because it's French! 5/5

Please disregard comment by loleralacartelort7890

[PunchB · 9/10 · 6 October 2006]

loleralacartelort7890 dismisses CIA: Secret Wars on the basis that the previous documentary by the director (Opération lune/Dark Side of the Moon) uses manipulation to make it look like the Americans faked the moon landing. He totally missed the point of that documentary. The point was to show how easily the truth can be manipulated with. It wasn't supposed to be a real documentary - in the end you can see that the "experts" are actually actors and so on. I repeat, the point of that movie was not that the moon landing was faked - actually it wasn't about the moon landing at all, but about the media and control.

CIA: Secret Wars, on the other hand, IS a real documentary, and it certainly deserves to be seen.

This is in its simplicity: anti-Americanism

[loleralacartelort7890 · 1/10 · 27 December 2005]

The director of this so-called documentary has a long history of being anti-American and anti-Bush. Not that there is something wrong with that, as long as it is well-documented. In this French director's documentary about the moon-landing (operation lune), he used a lot of manipulation to make it look like the Americans faked the moon landing. I don't know if they did this, but the French director didn't prove anything - he used actors to play ex-CIA-agents, government officials and alike, and he used these to say that USA faked the moon landings and killed all people who knew about it. Then this French director supposedly "proved" this by having well-known politicians, from that time, admit it. This was politicians like Richard Helms and Donald Rumsfeld. But the French director of that and this documentary lied: he feed the politicians different questions, and used there answer on a different question. It is pure manipulation. This French director also used this technique on this documentary. The French director says he does this in the name of justice, but he lies: it is in the name of anti-Americanism - that is a FACT. There is nothing wrong in proving CIA and George Bush's guilt: Michael Moore has done so in a respective way - this French director has not.

Don't watch it.