The Spook Who Sat by the Door (film)

The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a 1973 film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted in the Central Intelligence Agencys elitist espionage program as its token black. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Chicago blacks as Freedom Fighters. As a story of one mans reaction to white rulingclass hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.

The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. The CIA has been required for political reasons to recruit African Americans for training. Only one of them, Dan Freeman Lawrence Cook, secretly a black nationalist, successfully completes the training process. He becomes the first black man in the agency and is given a desk jobTop Secret Reproduction Center Sections Chief which means hes in charge of the copy machine. Freeman understands that he is the token black person in the CIA, and that the CIA defines his function as providing proof of the agencys supposed commitment to integration and progress. Therefore, after completing his training in guerrilla warfare techniques, weaponry, communications and subversion, Freeman puts in just enough time to avoid raising any suspicions about his motives before he resigns from the CIA and returns to work in the social services in Chicago.Upon his return, Freeman immediately begins recruiting young black men living in the inner city of Chicago to become Freedom Fighters teaching them all of the guerrilla warfare tactics that he learned from the CIA. They become a guerrilla group with Freeman as the secret leader. The Freedom Fighters set out to ensure that black people truly live freely within the United States by partaking in both violent and nonviolent actions throughout Chicago. The Freedom Fighters of Chicago begin spreading the word about their guerrilla warfare tactics across the United States as Freeman says, What we got now is a colony, what we want is a new nation. As revolt and a war of liberation continues in innercity Chicago, the National Guard and the police desperately try to stop the freedom fighters. ........

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