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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300210002-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 22, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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DAVID BRUDNOY
in the wake of Watergate, with CIA
activities in domestic affairs-strictly
proscribed-now surfacing, we would
be blinkards to refuse even to consider
the possibility of AID malfeasance. Who
knows what tomorrow's New York
Times will disclose. But Siege is not
aimed at enlightenment; agitprop suf-
fices. Turn to Scorpio, Michael Win-
ner's latest directorial mush-job, for a
completely anti-thought approach to
these matters. Here CIA agents Burt
'Lancaster and Alain Delon play out a
baffling and boring game of hide-and-
slaughter with each other and KGB
agent, Paul Scofield, whose Soviet em-
ployers,- we are instructed, are regular
guys just like American spy masters.
Scorpio's plot is witless relativism. Of
course all spying is a down-trip, but are
there no differences in regimes? In
Scorpio, none whatesoever; in Siege,
claro que si! 1973 has thus far not
been a good year for international in-
trigue cinema.
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