The Dark World of the CIA: Overthrowing Governments, Covert Use of American Mass Media, Torture 1980

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Allan James Francovich (March 23, 1941 – April 17, 1997)[1] was an American film maker. He is best known for creating a number of films critical of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), linking them to terrorist attacks during the Cold War in Africa, South America and Europe. The most notable of these are the Gladio (1992) series about Operation Gladio which featured on BBC's Timewatch and The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie (1994) about Pan Am Flight 103.

On Company Business (1976)

Documentary about the CIA, with exclusive use of interviews with current and former CIA employees such as David Atlee Phillips and L. Fletcher Prouty. Won the International Critics Award for Best Documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival. On Company Business was completed with funds from the International Documentary Fund, administered by the TV Lab at WNET.[9]
Gladio (1992)

In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due head, Licio Gelli, Italian neofascist and terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Venetian judge Felice Casson, Italian Gladio commander General Gerardo Serravale, Belgian Senator Roger Lallemand, Belgian gendarme Martial Lekue and former CIA director William Colby. Also included was "hoaxer" Oswald LeWinter.
Selected films

The Lobster Pot (1973). Directed by Allan Francovich.
Chile in the Heart (1975). Directed by Allan Francovich.
San Francisco Good Times (1977). Directed with Gene Rosow.
The Houses are Full of Smoke (1987). Produced and directed by Allan Francovich. Nominated for Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 1988. OCLC 317357951.
Pt. 1: Guatemala.
Pt. 2: El Salvador.
Pt. 3: Nicaragua.
On Company Business: Inside the CIA (1987). Written and directed by Allan Francovich. Produced with Howard Dratch. OCLC 997621250.
Short Circuit (1985). Directed by Allan Francovich. On the murder of nuns in El Salvador.
Dark Passage (1990). Directed by Allan Francovich. Produced by Kimi Zabinhyan for Observer Films.
"Murder in Mississippi." In: Secret History (Dec. 12, 1991). [S01E05].
The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie (1994). Written and directed by Allan Francovich. online
Best Documentary prize, Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Francovich

Kathleen Weaver (born 1945) is an American writer and editor, who was born in Sioux City, Iowa.

While a student in Berkeley she met documentary film director Allan Francovich whom she married in 1970; together they participated in the F.W. Murnau film society, the cinematic rediscovery circle around Tom Luddy, founder of the Pacific Film Archives. She co-edited three editions of the national reference Film Programmer’s Guide to 16mm Rentals, which received grants from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the NEA, and the California Arts Council.

She collaborated on a number of Francovich's films, including the award-winning and controversial On Company Business, A Documentary History of the CIA, 1980, directed by Francovich, co-produced by Howard Dratch. The couple's travels to Cuba and Central America led to her translation of a number of works from Spanish, including Fire from the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista by Omar Cabezas, and Julio Cortázar’s Nicaraguan Sketches, as well as the first book-length translation into English of Cuban poet Nancy Morejón. Her poetry translations, especially of Cuban poets (Nancy Morejón, Fayad Jamís, Cintio Vitier, Eliseo Diego, Fina García Marruz, Samuel Feijóo, Roberto Fernández Retamar) have appeared in reviews and textbooks. Her own poems have also appeared in reviews.

Following the dissolution of her marriage to Francovich in 1986, she became associated with and later married painter, poster and printmaker, KPFA Radio public events producer, and co-founder of Black Oak Books, Bob Baldock— one of only two North Americans who went from the mainland in March 1958 to join Fidel Castro's own 26th of July Group as a combatant in the Sierra Maestra of Cuba. With his help she wrote the first English-language biography of Peruvian feminist, poet, and progressive activist Magda Portal. Weaver has worked as guest faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute and for a number of years as a member of the adjunct faculty in English at Berkeley City College. She lives with her husband in Berkeley, California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Weaver

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