"Operation Curveball" is based on real events --"unfortunately," as the opening titles note--, so the genre of political satire fit the bill for a refugee who fooled the German and other Western intelligence services with monumental fallout. The tagline sums it up nicely: the true story of a global lie. For the GOETHE FILMS Toronto premiere, we asked Canadian Middle East expert Alan Barnes to introduce the film. Analyst Barnes was the one who advised the Chrétien government that Saddam Hussein had no active WMD program:
Friday, May 20. 2022
A front row seat on the biggest political con of 2000s
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