Benny Safdie‘s turn to acting in recent years has been a pleasant surprise. But now he’s branching out into TV, too.
08.09.2023 - 15:45 / deadline.com
When a Soviet submarine carrying nuclear warheads sunk into the north Pacific in 1968, the CIA took on a hugely ambitious project to recover it.
To keep it all a secret, the agency enlisted the help of Howard Hughes, who provided the agency cover, the guise being that the deep ocean activity was part of his company’s mining exploration.
The six-year CIA project — called Project Azorian — is one of the episodes of the new Netflix series Spy Ops, which looks at some of the most notorious spy operations in history.
The agency is collaborating with the producer of the series, Big Media, often shedding new light on Cold War-era and more recent operations that involve Argo-like risks and secrecy, while certain details still remain classified.
Other episodes delve into the intrigue surrounding the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, and another in 2001 to sneak a CIA team into Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11.
Following other shows like Spycraft and Terrorism Close Calls, which also have streamed on Netflix and other outlets, Big Media’s Spy Ops, debuting on Friday, comes at a time with growing distrust of the government overall.
Jon Loew, Big Media’s co-founder and chairman, who serves as executive producer of Spy Ops, said, “We are living in a time when it’s difficult to discern fact from fiction, and people are given lots of stories, lots of things to think about our spy agencies, about our government, about our world today,. And I think it is really important to highlight the successful missions of the CIA and other organizations who are working to protect us, and do it in an objective documentary format like ours.”
The Project Azorian episode looks at a mission that left people “in shock and
Benny Safdie‘s turn to acting in recent years has been a pleasant surprise. But now he’s branching out into TV, too.
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