A personal exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl. Through extraordinary events in twentieth century history, this consummate soldier/spy stood at the center of the Agency's most clandestine activities and operations. The film reveals the 'cover life' of this CIA operative, who followed orders and took on the dirtiest assignments until the Nixon Administration ordered him to 'stonewall' Congress about the CIA's past abuses, but he refused. This film reveals why, for the first time, he could not obey.
William Colby
as Self (archive footage)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
as Self - Former National Security Advisor
Seymour Hersh
as Self
Donald Rumsfeld
as Self
George H. W. Bush
as Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
Henry Kissinger
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Cabot Lodge
as Self (archive footage)
Robert McNamara
as Self - Secretary of Defense (voice) (archive footage)
Pope Pius XII
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
as Self (archive footage)
