al-Zarqawi video is a Hollywood production. Like the fat Osama video was

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http://www.usatoday.com/life/2005-03-07-hollywood-pentagon_x.htm

Hollywood, Pentagon share rich past

By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Reality TV may be a modern-day phenomenon, but the federal government has been working with the entertainment industry for decades to help screenwriters and directors portray its spies and warriors.

The 2-year-old Department of Homeland Security is just the latest government division to hire a Hollywood liaison:

• The FBI created its entertainment office in the 1930s, around the time James Cagney played a fearless FBI agent in the 1935 movie 'G' Men. The agency "realized a lot of people were getting their information from popular culture" and wanted to ensure agents were portrayed accurately, says Rex Tomb, who heads the 10-person office. Today, he works with TV's America's Most Wanted to try to catch FBI fugitives.

• The Defense Department's film liaison office is as old as the Pentagon itself. Phil Strub, who has run it for the past 16 years, says it was started in 1947 and existed in some form earlier. (Related story: Department of Homeland Security goes Hollywood)

• Chase Brandon, an undercover CIA agent for a quarter-century, started the CIA's Hollywood office nine years ago.