Enemy of the State is a typical Jerry Bruckheimer Hollywood blockbuster, including a Hollywood A-list cast and enough chases and explosions to keep even the most easily distracted fixated on the screen. But beneath the Hollywood gloss there is a remarkably prescient story about total government surveillance…and the risks associated with that power. Join us this week as we examine the CIA-approved predictive programming of this 1998 action flick.
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WORKS CITED:
More information on the CALEA Act
http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-129-calea-and-the-stellar-wind/
The Making of Enemy of the State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4flSayeq2Go
Building a Case Against Controlled Demolition, Inc.
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?1473-Building-a-Case-Against-Controlled-Demolition-Inc.
Marty Keiser recounts his experience on Enemy of the State
http://www.martykaiser.com/enemy.htm
Steve Uhrig recounts his experience on Enemy of the State
http://www.swssec.com/state.html
The Fresh Prince and the CIA
http://www.spyculture.com/the-fresh-prince-and-the-cia/
Chase Brandon’s official bio
http://www.chasebrandon.com/page0/page0.html
Chase Brandon pumps the Roswell story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2170831/Roswell-UFO-landing-CIA-agent-Chase-Brandon-speaks-65th-anniversary.html
Next month: The Lord of the Rings
I suspect details such as dates and times are often important and can be illustrative. In Enemy of the State, NSA section head Thomas Henry Reynolds’ birthday is listed as 9-11-40, (1:31:55 into the film). Given the film’s subject matter, I thought it ‘interesting’.
~~ HISTORICAL RECORD ~~
On Tuesday September 29, 2026, James Corbett published:
The Conversation (1974) – Film, Literature and the New World Order
(This was actually Livestreamed the previous Sunday)
“This month on the James Corbett Book (and Movie!) Club (aka Film, Literature and the New World Order)(FLNWO):
The Conversation (1974) – dir. Francis Ford Coppola
LIVESTREAM – Sunday, September 27 at 8:00 AM EST (New York time)”
From that 2026 FLNWO, James Corbett says:
“…so, people will hopefully be familiar with ‘Enemy of the State’ because I covered it in a film literature, New World Order, many years ago…
…I didn’t realize at the time when I saw it, because I hadn’t seen ‘The Conversation’. But now having seen ‘The Conversation’, oh, yeah!
Oh, they weren’t even trying to hide it!
They were obviously referencing ‘The Conversation’.
There is a scene with Will Smith and another woman that is an exact replication of the opening scene of ‘The Conversation’ where they’re in the square and people moving around and they’re trying to get the recording of it, etc.
Gene Hackman is Harry Call essentially.
They even show a file photo of Harry Call from back in the day and it is literally the picture from ‘The Conversation’.
He’s wearing the transparent raincoat towards the end of Enemy of the State.
It’s a clear reference to the transparent raincoat….”
QUEUED 2026 VIDEO
https://corbettreport.com/the-conversation-1974/#comment-190139