The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) on Netflix
NR20111h 44mBiographyDocumentaryHistory
William Colby serves with the OSS in World War II, then rises through the Central Intelligence Agency. His son sets that career against the family life his father kept from him.
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William Colby served in World War II as an officer and a paratrooper with the OSS, and afterward rose inside the Central Intelligence Agency. His assignments included covert political action against the Communist Party in Italy and counterinsurgency work during the Vietnam War. In the 1970s he led the agency as Director of Central Intelligence. His son traces that career alongside the home life his father kept from the family, drawing on archival footage and new interviews with officials, journalists and William Colby's former wife.
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- Henry Cabot Lodgeas Self (archive footage)
