[MOVIE 'Z' VERY HIGH ON THE LIST]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300280001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 3, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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V o meet ng places to re. now my deep and abiding faith In the
fuse rental privileges to the peace faction.. Constitution of the United States and my
After a mass meeting, the peace leader is commitment to humanity in general. If
run down by a truck. An Investigation Is a man of my ethical persuasion, moral
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ma an morality. i am constantly followed and watched. I,
In the movie, the peace faction is the i know that hotel rooms are bugged and
"enemy" of established government, Raj. !wired, that two-way mirrors are installed,.
lies and mass meetings are discouraged right In the nation's capitol, as pointed.
and frustrated by subtle little officialities out in Justice William O. Douglas' new,
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like denials of meeting permits and pres. book, "Points of Rebellion." And I also }
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by/JDick' Gregory,
Every listing of the year's best films , ernments is likely to apply that art one, "commodity true democracy really is; much
places the movie "Z" very high on the I day on our own government. I too precious to be mocked and ridiculed by
/list. Rightly so. It is educational cinema There is no doubt in my mind that the' he current infatuation with pseudo-patri.
V,' and should be viewed after a careful read- CIA shot JFK and had a hand in the subvotism.
jog of the synopsis of the Conspiracy 8~7 scquent killings of Robert Kennedy, Mali V It will be a sad day for many AmerI?
Trial in Chicago. color X and Martin Luther King Jr. The cans when events force them to realize
Though filmed in France and referring lost of mystel i and conveniont,deatlcg that men like Mark Lane and District
to a political situation In Greece, "Z" following the assassination of JFK bears Attorney Jim Garrison, though voices cry.
deals with topics increasingly familiar in a strong resemblance to the movie "Z.", ing in a wilderness of rejection, were
America - government control, the at.,. That the CIA Is actively capable of close really. the true patriots of our land. Do.
tempt of concerned citizens to articulate : and illegal surveillance is proved In my' ' "mocraey lost will be democracy appreciat:
a higher morality, and the resort to assas? personal experience almost every day. ed, , and perhaps the only real Incentive
sination as a sure way to silence both dis? As I travel In this country and abroad, making it work right once and. for alt
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death and due legal process) and, in the "communist influences." Such a point of
end, government by dictatorship. view sells the CIA expertise short and
aunc
ed and the unmistakeable evidence
points in the direction of assassination by
government goons.
Result: vindication of accused govern.
went officials, jailing or killing of all
those wise to the government conspiracy
(all under the umbrella of accidental
But what has this to do with America,
the silent majority -will say? For one
thing, it deals with a very real situation'
in Greece. And America, whose govern.
mental gut characteristic'has never been
an aversion to Interfering"in the affairs of
other nations, stood silently by and
dictatorship in Greece. That's' the same area of germ warfare. Only the CIA would
America which goes all over the world possess the sophistication to use germ
trying to force democracy on other na? warfare and totally wipe out any particu,
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on
recognized the newly established military i pertise that has been developed in the'
THE DAILY ILLINI
3 Feb .1970
standards, and honest orientation can be
considered a " "security risk" by thp. CIA,
I must conclude that the CIA Is worried
about Its own security i nd'not-that of the
United States.
Yet the CIA is generally regarded as
a necessary presence to guard a
ai
t
gives so-called communist Influences mora
credit than they are due. The CIA Is bet.'
ter-trained, better-equipped' and 'better.
prepared than any communist-influenced,'
group or individual In this country will,
ever be. If governmental takeover results'.
in America, it will ka the_CIA's doing, not ,
the communists!
silence was broken when she officially Consider for example the awesome v-'
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s a gunpoint I tar group of people in this country and'
The "Z" syndrome runs deeper pass it off as an epidemic,; Few people'
America, and the Greece scenario could would question or suspect, just as few'
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ee a glimpse at Ameria
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cs no-oo.ave reay quesoe the tragic assassifi
distant future. Americans were horrified ations in America. ,.
and outraged when the late Malcolm X The CIA has been very active infil?
referred to the assassination of President trating" -movements .and institutions at
John F. Kennedy as an example of "Chick. home-the church, educational institu-
ens coming home to roost." What passed tions, the news media, large foundations
as a flippant and callous disregard for ? (which finance both movements and 1n?.
-the memory of the dead President was stitutions), and the youth/peace move-
really a perceptive political comment. ment. Such Infiltration runs much deeper
Malcolm X realized the role of the than a kind of political voyeurism.
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Central Intelligence Agency (C14), In the Perhaps it would take a governmental
overthrow of foreign governments and the overthrow by unsuspected forces ' within
killing off of political leaders. He was the government itself to make the major-,
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