It’s a copy of the video from archive.org’s Community Video collection.
http://archive.org/details/SecretsOfT…
The IMDB page provides the full cast list and other information, some of which is provided below. Some related information sources are added at the end of this text.
This video was directed and written by James L. Otis and the cast list for the people appearing as themselves, “in credits order”, are:
Ralph McGehee (see Wikipedia),
Verne Lyon (see Wikipedia for “Operation CHAOS” — the page has a reference link for a piece by him),
Mary Embree,
Phil Agee (see Wikipedia),
Phil Roettinger,
Peter Kombluh,
Stansfield Turner (see Wikipedia),
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (see Wikipedia)
Gene R. LaRocque (see Wikipedia)
From archive footage, and according to the ordering specified by IMDB, there are: Frank Church, William Colby, H.S. Truman, JFK, LBJ, GHW Bush, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.
Runtime: IMDB says 60min, but the IMDB page is entitled, “Secrets of the CIA (1998) (TV)”, so I guess the fact that this video is 44 minutes is due to cutting of commercials. A web search turned up nothing longer than 44min.
Phil Roettinger : Nothing at Wikipedia, but the following page provides some bio.
http://analisesdomjoker.blogspot.ca/2…
The following piece says he’s an “ex-marine and former CIA officer who led the overthrow of Guatemalan President Arbenz in 1954”.
http://www.williamgbecker.com/nicarag…
Peter Kombluh : Also nothing at Wikipedia, but there’re many links returned by Google when using “peter Kombluh”, -Kornbluh and CIA for search terms.
“-Kornbluh” (unquoted though) is recommended for additional search term in order to avoid links about Peter K o r n bluh rather than K o m blugh. It’s the latter surname that’s needed.
Related videos, including documentaries:
“School of Assassins” is about WHINSEC, “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation” (clearly not security for most of us), formerly named SOA, School of Americas, and aka School of Assassins:
1 of 2 (5:21), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOeaG…
2 of 2 (8:17), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW0k3…
The following page provides a transcript for a 13-minute copy of the video.
“School of the Americas: School of Assassins”,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.i…
Activist Father Roy Bourgeois, who’s no longer a Maryknoll priest since October 2012 (probably for good reasons, on his part anyway), served as a US Navy officer for 4 years, including one in Vietnam. He founded School of Americas Watch, SOAW, in 1990 and is interviewed or is a cast member in the above video.
The following video (55 minutes) is from PBS.
“Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins”,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgBv…
“Inside Story Americas – The School of the Americas: Class over?” (25 min),
Uploaded by AlJazeera in Sep. 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3Yn…
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“Secret Wars of the CIA” (2:48:49),
lecture by John Stockwell on Nov. 3, 1989 (including Q&A a little past half way through),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYZ_…
The text description for the video, uploaded by CommissarRed, begins by saying that the lecture was in 1987 and it’s the wrong year for the video. The video itself shows 11/3/89 and the setting for the 1987 lecture with the same title is clearly different, as seen in the 6:27 clip in the following webpage at ICH which provides a 2-page transcript for the 1987 lecture.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.i…
The date discrepancy isn’t important, for John Stockwell didn’t state anything in either lecture that contradicts anything he previously or later said with his “whistle blowing”. He was consistent and I’m just adding the extra date and location info for a FYI note.
C-SPAN’s full video for the Nov. 3, 1989, lecture:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/10…
The Alternative Views fan channel at YouTube has many videos uploaded from copies of episodes of the unfortunately past Alternative Views public-access tv program that was based in Texas. There’re several interviews with John Stockwell, Phil Agee and possibly some with Ralph McGehee. Maybe there’re also some with additional CIA “whistle blowers” as well.
For AV history, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna…
Also, John Pilger’s film, “War On Democracy”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHzc…
http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-war-…
Quote: “‘The War On Democracy’ (2007) was John Pilger’s first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries …. … interviews several ex-CIA agents who took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries in the region. He investigates the School of the Americas in the US state of Georgia, …. …”
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