Movie: Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair

Top 9 Billed Cast

Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Montgomery

Narrator

Jonathan Kwitny
Jonathan Kwitny

Self - Author/Journalist

Peter Dale Scott
Peter Dale Scott

Self - Professor/Author

Jack Brooks
Jack Brooks

Self - Congressman

Edén Pastora
Edén Pastora

Self - Former Contra Leader

David MacMichael
David MacMichael

Self - Former CIA Analyst

Daniel Sheehan
Daniel Sheehan

Self - Christic Institute

Barbara Honegger
Barbara Honegger

Self - Former White House Policy Analyst

John Stockwell
John Stockwell

Self - Former CIA Officer

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    Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair is the third feature-length documentary produced by the Empowerment Project. The shadow government of assassins, arms dealers, drug smugglers, former CIA operatives and top US military personnel who were running foreign policy unaccountable to the public, revealing the Reagan/Bush administration's plan to use FEMA to institute martial law and ultimately suspend the Constitution. Strikingly relevant to current events.

  • Release Date

    1988-08-26

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    6

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  • Tagline

    The Film That Starts Where The Hearings Left Off

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