Fade to Black | 7. Single White Chase Brandon

The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In the late 1990s, the CIA introduced its first Hollywood Liaison Office, a former clandestine services officer named Chase Brandon. Could Gary’s relationship with the Agency, and its Hollywood office, have played a role in his disappearance? Unlock all episodes of Witnessed: Fade to Black, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free.Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Witnessed show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max. Christmas is great, but there's loads of ways to make it better.
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0:37.0	The bench. Oh, bitch. That's the sound of Ben Stiller and the 2000 comedy meet the parents as he nervously
0:50.4	he nervously trips and falls before entering the office of his future father-in-law, Robert DeNiro, who plays a very tightly wound former CIA officer.
0:59.7	In this scene, Stiller finds himself inside De Niro's secret basement office, which the writers
1:05.1	thought would be filled with terrifying momentos of a shadowy CIA career.
1:10.0	The room in the original script is covered in Central Intelligence Agency torture manuals from the
1:19.8	School of Americas, which had been used in Central and South America,
1:24.0	there's got guidelines as textbooks on how to hurt people on mass
1:30.8	and how to torture people. And so DeNiro's character is represented as being associated
1:38.0	with these most horrific tools of the trade.
1:43.0	That's Matthew Alford who we met last episode.
1:49.0	The British guy behind that documentary or whatever it is, the writer with no hands.
1:54.0	Alford is also a serious academic who studies the influence of CIA propaganda in
1:59.5	Hollywood. He's singling out this particular film because in the final cut of Meet the Parents, the CIA
2:06.0	Torture manuals are not what the audience sees.
2:09.1	When Ben Stiller goes into the office of Robert DeNiro.
2:14.3	He's still intimidated, but he's intimidated
2:16.5	because you see a picture of DeNiro with Bill Clinton.
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