Why You Love The CIA

[mik3cap]

I got this off of John Hodgman's blog:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html

I really really really really want to see Jack Kirby concept illustrations of Zelazny's Lord of Light. Dear god, I want to POSSESS them.

Do you think the CIA has them locked up in a room somewhere...?

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[lucasthegray.livejournal.com]

I really really really really want to see Jack Kirby concept illustrations of Zelazny's Lord of Light.

Your wish is granted.

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Oh mercy me, I need a print of the Planetary Control Room on my wall...

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

The artist Jim Lee who founded Image Comics purchased the originalP lanetary Control Room, by the way, for about $10,000 at Sothebys.

Jim Lee is my enemy!!! Maybe he'll fall on hard financial times and I can buy it off him...

[neuromancerzss.livejournal.com]

See the ad!

That's totally awesome. Also from https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter99-00/art1.html :

Senior CIA managers did not summarily reject the Hollywood option, recognizing that it could have advantages even beyond the problem of rescuing the six. The thinking was as follows:

The idea of using paramilitary means to rescue the hostages held at the US Embassy had seemed impossible, given Tehran's geographical location. The movie cover might enable us to approach the Iranian Ministry of National Guidance with a proposal to shoot a movie sequence in or near Tehran. The Ministry had been charged with countering negative publicity on Iran by promoting tourism. Tehran was also looking for ways to alleviate some of the cash-flow problems caused when the United States froze Iran's assets in the US. A motion picture production on Iranian soil could be an economic shot in the arm and would provide an ideal public relations tool to help counteract the adverse publicity stemming from the hostage situation.

A relative "moderate"--Abulhassan Bani-Sadr--was about to be elected President of Iran, and we judged it possible that he could be sold on these economic points and then might be able to gain agreement from the radical factions of the regime. If so, the cover for infiltrating the Delta Force (in preparation for a hostage rescue attempt at the Embassy) as a team of movie set construction workers and camera crews to prepare the set was a natural. We imagined that it might be possible to conceal weapons and other material in the motion picture equipment.