From the people who brought you the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine, the Korean War, sundry Cold War skirmishes and the failed Bay of Pigs intervention in Cuba, full-fledged military coups in Brazil and Indonesia, the twenty-year agony of Vietnam: Francovich's groundbreaking film on the CIA is a tour (de force) of American foreign policy, its purposes, goals, and methods, its myths, premises, and forces. For a riveting three hours, news film of past CIA operations or CIA-created propaganda are interspersed with amazing interviews with CIA defenders and defectors, ranging from agents to ambassadors. Philip Agee, Victor Marchetti, and John Stockwell are three of the better known former CIA employees featured. Others go public for the first time. Francovich and producer Howard Dratch wrote: "Many months of looking at footage in the news libraries made it clear that these events were not just accidentally linked....Always there was a deliberate, methodically conducted, and carefully implemented policy at work. We found no 'rogue elephant' rampaging through history."