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Status
Released
Release
1988
Runtime
1h 12m
"The Film That Starts Where The Hearings Left Off"
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.
9 Cast Members
Elizabeth Montgomery
Narrator
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