During the Second World War hundreds of Hollywood filmmakers under
the command of the legendary director John Ford enlisted in the OSS
to produce training, reconnaissance and propaganda films. This
wartime bond continued into the post-war period, when a number of
studios produced films advocating the creation of a permanent
peacetime successor to the OSS: what became the Central
Intelligence Agency. By the 1960s however, Hollywood's increasingly
irreverent attitude towards the CIA reflected a growing public
anxiety about excessive US government secrecy. In Secrecy's Shadow
provides the first comprehensive history of the birth and
development of Hollywood's relationship with American intelligence.
It takes an interdisciplinary approach, synthesizing literatures
and methodologies from diplomatic history, film studies and
cultural theory, and it presents new perspectives on a number of
major filmmakers including Darryl F. Zanuck, Alfred Hitchcock and
John Ford. Based on research conducted in over 20 archival
repositories across the United States and UK, In Secrecy's Shadow
explores the revolution in the relationship between Hollywood and
the secret state, from unwavering trust and cooperation to extreme
scepticism and paranoia, and demonstrates the debilitating effects
of secrecy upon public trust in government and the stability of
national memory.
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