THE ACCIDENTAL SPY?

American Journalism Review,  July, 2001  by BIGWOOD, JEREMY

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A photojournalist, distressed that a "State Department" official has been examining his unpublished photographs, files a flurry of FOIAs in an effort to find out what's up.

In the film "Under Fire," the lead character is a photojournalist who goes behind the lines in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas, guerrillas fighting the U.S.-backed regime in power. To gain that access, the journalist first had to convince the Sandinistas that the images he was taking in their secret base camps would be used only to tell their story. He was horrified to later learn that the CIA ...

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