投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 12 月 05 日 15:32:34:
●この夏に死去した退役工作員が、ハリウッドのメーキャップ・
アーティストの力を借りて、冷戦時代にアジアで数々の秘密工作
を行なっていたことを告白しました。その告白は米国のテレビ
で放映されるそうですが、『スタートレック』や『猿の惑星』で独創的
なメイクを披露した腕利きのアーティストがCIA工作員のために
変装用ラテックスマスクを提供していたなんて、事実は小説よりも
奇ですな。（なにが奇妙かと言えば、その“カウボーイ的”なチョロ
い手口が……。）
●こういうことが行なわれていたとすれば、ウサマ・ビン・ラディン
のインチキ映像などが出てきても全然不思議じゃないですね。
もっとも、今やインチキ動画をデッチ上げるなんて簡単なことです
し、たとえば第二次大戦中に日系米国人部隊が対日情報工作を
担当していたわけで、わざわざ白人エキストラを使わなくても
偽タリバン兵の部隊くらいデッチ上げるのはワケのないことでしょう。
●ところで英国のメディアが先日吹聴したウサマ・ビン・ラディンの
「核恫喝」映像というのを私はいまだに見てないんですが――英国
糞メディアの飛ばし報道はめっちゃカッチョ悪いゾ（笑）――日本
では素人さんが“幻のアイドル全裸”動画映像とか、その他の
アイドルコラージュ動画映像を難なく作り、それががいろいろ出回
っているようで……。
ましてイワンヤ、CIAやハリウッド“夢産業”がインチキ映像を
「報道」と称してニュースメディアで垂れ流していても全然不思議
じゃないですね。シオニストのスピルバーグが「産業規模の霊光
と魔術」（Industrial Light & Magic）という名前のCGスタジオを
作ったのも、まことに興味ぶかいですけど……。
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Documentary examines Hollywood's CIA connection
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/headline/entertainment/1156336
Dec. 4, 2001, 9:48AM
By ANTHONY BREZNICAN
Associated Press
Retired CIA agent Antonio J. Mendez reveals
some of his Hollywood recruiting efforts in
the documentary Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood.
http://images.chron.com/content/news/photos/01/12/04/cia.jpg
LOS ANGELES -- Since the CIA's founding in 1947, movies and TV shows often have depicted the intelligence service's agents as sinister, disloyal or unstable.
But while the spy agency may bristle at its Hollywood image, it's also forged secret ties within the entertainment industry.
Former agents reveal these unlikely alliances in the documentary Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood on the American Movie Classics network (9 tonight).
In the program, retired agent Antonio J. Mendez, 61, describes recruiting master Hollywood makeup artists to devise ways to disguise operatives in the field.
Mendez, who has been honored by the agency as one of its top 50 innovators, received special clearance from the government to discuss many of his exploits.
One of his most valuable contacts was Oscar-winning makeup artist John Chambers, who designed the pointy Vulcan ears on the 1966 TV series Star Trek and transformed actors into monkeys for the original Planet of the Apes movie in 1968.
Mendez came to him with a problem during the Vietnam conflict: a black CIA agent had cultivated a government source in Laos, but a meeting between a black man and an Asian might arouse the suspicion of local authorities.
Chambers, who died in August at 78, came up with the idea of disguising the two men with realistic latex masks.
Shortly after the agent picked up his Laotian contact for the meeting, their worst fear was realized: They hit a government roadblock.
"But when the guards saw what looked like two Caucasians in a diplomatic car, they just waved them through," Mendez said. "That wasn't unusual to them."
Perhaps the CIA's biggest Hollywood-aided coup was rescuing six American diplomats from Iran during the hostage crisis in 1979. The Americans were stranded at a Canadian embassy, and Mendez and Chambers devised a way to sneak them out of the country as part of a Hollywood film crew.
The key was developing credible cover, so Bob Sydell, another makeup artist and trusted friend of Chambers, set up a small office at Sunset-Gower Studios. He then placed ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter announcing the company's new sci-fi epic Argo, which would be filmed partly in Iran.
There was a script, there was a studio, but it was all a sham.
"We had to create a pretty complete scenario in case any Iranian authorities checked up on it," Sydell said. "It worked pretty well, because even people in Hollywood were calling us looking for work."
Mendez, masquerading as the producer, slipped into Iran pretending to scout locations and disguised the staid diplomats in the flashier fashions and jewelry of Hollywood types.
They were able to leave Tehran without arousing suspicion that the "film crew" was really composed of U.S. government officials.
Recently, the CIA even started a more overt presence in the entertainment industry -- supplying technical advice for some projects, such as CBS' The Agency and the upcoming Ben Affleck thriller The Sum of All Fears.
But the CIA is wary of assisting TV shows or films that reinforce old stereotypes.
"If it's a type of effort where someone's portraying us in a realistic light, we're happy to help out," CIA spokesman Mike Tadie said. "If it perpetuates the types of myths in popular films of the past -- that we're into assassination plots and drug dealing -- we're just not going to cooperate on something like that."
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