Cover Up: Behind the Iran Contra Affair (1988)
The Film That Starts Where The Hearings Left Off
72 min
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
- August 26, 1988
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Rubén Blades, Richard Elliot, Pink Floyd
Cast
- Elizabeth Montgomery as Narrator
- Jack Brooks as Self
- Barbara Honegger as Self
- David MacMichael as Self
- George H.W. Bush as Self
- Sam Donaldson as Self
- Fawn Hall as Self
- Daniel Inouye as Self
- Ayatollah Khomeini as Self
- Oliver North as Self
Crew
- George H.W. Bush · Archive footage
- Sam Donaldson · Archive footage
- Fawn Hall · Archive footage
- Daniel Inouye · Archive footage
- Ayatollah Khomeini · Archive footage
- Oliver North · Archive footage
- David Kasper · Director
- Barbara Trent · Director
- Eve Goldberg · Writer
- David Kasper · Producer
- Gary Meyer · Producer
- Barbara Trent · Producer
- Rubén Blades · Composer
- Richard Elliot · Composer
- Pink Floyd · Composer
- Lou Reed · Composer
- Gary Meyer · Cinematographer
- Anthony Clarke · Editor
- Michael Dobo · Editor
- Eve Goldberg · Editor
- David Kasper · Editor