The cultural turn in intelligence studies

[John Newman]

Im not quite old enough for the Prisoner, or it's
precursor, but it sounds cool in a David Lynch sorta
way... 

The Americans is the only "spy show" I ever watched, it 
was kinda fucking silly, but still pretty good. Watching 
Soviet "illegals" trying to take down the odious American
Empire in Reagan years was a decent conceit ;)



On August 22, 2019 3:56:25 AM UTC, Razer <g2s at riseup.net> wrote:
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>On August 21, 2019 7:51:43 PM PDT, rooty <arpspoof at protonmail.com>
>wrote:
>>Are you really over 60. OMG that is flippen agent you could be my
>grate
>>grate grampa.
>>
>
>I'm older still and I remember the rollover from, in the US, "Secret
>Agent", to The Prisoner, which I thought was VERY excellent even when I
>was a kid.
>
>You'll note the one recurring theme throughout the whole series. There
>was NO ONE #6 could trust. Ever. On reading Steve's details I've seen
>slightly different show creation narratives but one thing I know...
>McGoohan was DRIVEN to do this. He was willing to fund it out of his
>own pocket if necessary. Whatever that 'argument with the chief' was
>about in the last episode (all you hear is thunder) was in some way,
>irl, connected to his drive to get the prisoner on the air.
>
>
>I believe all the prisoner episodes are on youtube. I torrented the
>collection a few years ago. There's also a number of interviews with
>McGoohan about it on Youtube and quite detailed sociological analyses
>of the overall show and episodes floating around the intertubz as well.
>
>Ps. The only spy show on the air at the time that was better? Get
>Smart... or maybe I just had the prepubescent hots for 99.
>
>Rr
>Har Har.
>
>
>>-------- Original Message --------
>>On Aug 21, 2019, 3:50 PM, jim bell wrote:
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>>> On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 12:35:46 PM PDT, Steve Kinney
>><admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/18/19 8:05 PM, coderman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  The cultural turn in intelligence studies
>>>>
>>>>> Simon Willmetts
>>>>> Correspondences.d.willmetts at fgga.leidenuniv.nl
>>>>> View further author information
>>>>> Pages 800-817 | Published online: 23 May 2019
>>>
>>>>My small contribution comes in at only 1400 words:
>>>
>>>>The Prisoner: An Introduction
>>>
>>>>The Prisoner is one of the most iconic and surrealistic, if not
>>> psychedelic, products of the 1960s "golden age" of television.  An
>>angry
>>> secret agent returns home from hand delivering his letter of
>>> resignation, when he is immediately gassed by an undertaker in top
>>hat
>>> and tails.  He regains consciousness in his own bed but when he
>looks
>>> out his window he discovers that he is no longer home at all:  He is
>>in
>>> The Village, a deceptively idyllic holiday resort that is actually a
>>> high tech prison for spies.  At once the games begin.
>>>
>>> I am actually old enough (61) to remember watching The Prisoner
>>first-run.  It was clearly quite different than typical American fare.
>>>
>>>                 Jim Bell
>
>Rr
>Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
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