The prominent role which Hollywood has played in psychological and spiritual warfare during the 20th century bears oft repeating:
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, reported that “the motion picture is one of the most powerful propaganda weapons at the disposal of the United States.” This declassified OSS report identified the ability for movies to stimulate or inhibit action, the ability to allay or aggravate anxiety, as well as the powerful ability to form attitudes and belief systems. The crucial part that cinema and television has had in the pantheon of psychological weaponry is impossible to overstate.
The colossal role that the US military and CIA has in Hollywood productions is a well established fact. From script rewrites to outright pro-war agitprop, the US Government has had generations of directors and studios under their thumb. From 1911 to 2017, the US government financially sponsored nearly 2,000 movies and televisions show. This collusion has skyrocketed in recent decades, with 900 of those 1100 television shows being created after 2005. The former CIA agent Bob Baer describes this intermingling between Hollywood elites and the US government: "All these people that run studios - they go to Washington, they hang around with senators, they hang around with CIA directors, and everybody's on board." This has been true since the inceptio
