Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
On a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops.
I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that The [...]
Finally, the DVD for The Most Secret Place on Earth is out, about a year after the film surfaced on YouTube! There are some great extra, never before seen interviews with the film’s main characters but unfortunately the footage is all in German, as are the subtitles. Given that the film has garnered so much [...]
There’s new additional footage for Marc Eberle’ s The Most Secret Place on Earth, co-written by Tom Vater.
Watch never before seen interview with James Lilley, Deputy CIA station chief in Laos, on the ghosts of the past and the high life in a war zone.
This interview was filmed in August 2006. Note how Lilley [...]
There’s new additional footage for Marc Eberle’ s The Most Secret Place on Earth, co-written by Tom Vater.
Watch never before seen interviews about Tony Poe, one of the CIA’s most effective, ruthless and just plain crazy agents!
About the film:
For a factual telling of the CIA´secret history in Laos, check out The Most Secret Place [...]
The Most Secret Place on Earth - The CIA’s Covert War in Laos, directed by Marc Eberle and written by Marc Eberle and Tom Vater has just been broadcast on the History Channel.
The film traces the origin and development of the largest clandestine CIA operation to date (at least as far as the agency actually [...]
The trailer for The Most Secret Place on Earth (The CIA Covert War in Laos), directed by Marc Eberle and co-authored by Tom Vater, has clocked more than 22.000 hits on YouTube.
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The Most Secret Place on Earth - The CIA’s Covert War in Laos will be shown as part of the Lifescapes Film Festival in Chiang Mai this week. The screeing is on Sunday, February 6th at 14.30.
For further details, please visit the Festival Website.
For an enlightened and accurate telling of the CIA´secret history in Laos [...]
The Most Secret Place on Earth premiered in Australia on ABC1 television on January 24th at 9.30pm.
Ironically, The Most Secret Place on Earth competed with Generation Kill, showing on ABC2 at the same time, a seven-part war mini-series about a Rolling Stone reporter embedded with US troops in Iraq.
About the [...]