The film exhaustively documents how the secret services of the allied victors, led by the OSS (the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency), deployed fascist and other far-right groups that had collaborated with Hitler (what they termed “stay-behinds”) to build secret networks of spies and agents to fight against communist or other left-wing movements in Cold-War Europe.…See also Operation Paperclip.
The deep state began in the Truman administration with the creation of clandestine services with enormous power and scant accountability that employed questionable methods and combined intelligence gathering with clandestine operations.
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