I’m trying to find a movie, shown in color, seen some 3, 4, maybe 5 years ago on Netflix (or was it Amazon??) about the O.S.S. (“Office of Strategic Services”) the WW2 precursor to the CIA.
Most of it is spent going into the formation of the OSS and its activities during WW2. Drama thrown in for good measure of course - its a movie!
But the real punchline comes at the end and its only a few minutes long.
We see the head of the OSS, or at least a key man of the OSS, faced with his organization’s elimination because the general sentiment in Washington is that the OSS is no longer needed now that the war is over and won. He is desperate to keep it going.
The scene near the very end is of men gathered before him that give the impression of being major American Businesssmen, Industries, (or their representatives) etc.
This guy then asks them what would be the value, to them, of having an organization that could provide intelligence on EVERYthing going on around the world going forward, now that the war is over and won?
After presenting this the next scene is something to do with the CIA being formed in 1947 and a few images, but the message is clear: the CIA continues to serve . . . American business.
It showed, at its very end, that the function of the CIA is to provide intelligence to American Business, to ensure American Business success, that American Business stays #1 in the world . . . that the CIA has nothing to do with ensuring human rights or any other such propaganda.
Anyone remember the name of this movie?
Thanks!