This probing documentary from Carl Coby investigates a figure at once cloaked in mystery and close to his heart: his father, CIA operative William Coby. From his father's early career parachuting into Europe during WWII, to election tampering in Italy, to the controversial Phoenix Program during Vietnam, Coby's father's exploits are studied in depth, sometime for the first time ever, with a mix of professional and personal insight. Cammila Collar, Rovi
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This probing documentary from Carl Coby investigates a figure at once cloaked in mystery and close to his heart: his father, CIA operative William Coby. From his father's early career parachuting into Europe during WWII, to election tampering in Italy, to the controversial Phoenix Program during Vietnam, Coby's father's exploits are studied in depth, sometime for the first time ever, with a mix of professional and personal insight. Cammila Collar, Rovi
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William Colby, Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, Bob Woodward, Seymour Hersh, Tim Weiner. Very good. 2012 Run time: 104. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed!
This film was created by Colby's son. It is great in understanding how the CIA works and doesn't from the viewpoint of the son. The interviews are perhaps the highlight. In part it is an attempt of the son to know and justify what the father did in the CIA and in part it is how the CIA works. And not necessarily for the good of the country...