Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Special News Broadcast recorded from PBS Evening News for Tuesday, Jul 22, 1980


Title: Non Fiction Television: On Company Business

Abstract:
  • A three-part PBS news program entitled "On Company Business" (a part of "Non Fiction Television" series), on the Central Intelligence Agency and its role in American Foreign Policy. Part One examines the origins of the CIA in the 1940s and explores its activities through the early 1960s. Part Two focuses on CIA activities in Latin American during the 1960s. Part Three focuses on the CIA in the decade of the 1970s, including operations in Chile, Angola, and Iran.
  • Taped footage of interviews with former CIA Director William Colby, Philip Agee, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Senator Henry Jackson, Sig Mickelson, Paul Sakwa, Victor Reuther, James and Elsie Wilcott, David Atlee Phillips, Victor Marchetti, former CIA Director John McCone, Robert Maheu, John Stockwell, Richard Martinez, Andrea McClellan, Bill Doherty, Col. Pedro Paulo de Barauna, Angela Seixas, A. J. Langguth, Dr. Hugo Villar, Juan Ferreira,
  • Taped footage of statements and/or speeches from President Harry S Truman, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Cecil B. Demille, Tom Braden, George Meany, President John F Kennedy, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Senator Frank Church, former CIA Director Richard Helms, McGeorge Bundy, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Manuel Hevia, Ron Ziegler,

  • Begin Time:07:00:30 pm
    End Time:11:00:00 pm
    TVN Record Number:904123
    Copyright:Abstract and Metadata (c) 1980-2009 Vanderbilt University
    More Information:Contact the staff of the Archive.

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