Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (1988)

08/26/1988 (US) • 1h 12m

Documentary

The Film That Starts Where The Hearings Left Off

Overview

Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.

Top Billed Cast

Jonathan Kwitny

Self - Author/Journalist

Peter Dale Scott

Self - Professor/Author

Jack Brooks

Self - Congressman

Edén Pastora

Self - Former Contra Leader

David MacMichael

Self - Former CIA Analyst

Daniel Sheehan

Self - Christic Institute

Barbara Honegger

Self - Former White House Policy Analyst

John Stockwell

Self - Former CIA Officer


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Status

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Original Language

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords

scandal

ronald reagan

woman director

iran–contra affair

covert

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