By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya: The recognized establishment of ties between
Hollywood and the US government began with the production of the silent
war movie Wings in 1927. The silent movie was about the First World War
and relied heavily on the United States Army Air Corps, which is the
aerial wing of the US Army. Ever since the making of Wings in 1927 there
has been a close partnership between the Pentagon and Hollywood that
has expanded and blossomed to include other government bodies and
agencies, including members of the sixteen-member US intelligence
community, such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This has led
to the vertical integration of Hollywood and the entertainment industry
into the military-industrial complex, which has in essence reduced
Hollywood movies to tools of cultural imperialism and camouflaged US
propaganda.
