The Spook Who Sat by the Door

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 (actor)), secretly a black nationalist, successfully completes the training process. He becomes the first black man in the agency and is given a desk job—Top Secret Reproduction Center Sections Chief (which means he is 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 agency's 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.

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 62713
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide September 21, 1973
  • Runtime 102 minutes
  • Genres Action Drama Crime
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio United Artists Pictures
  • Production Company Bokari
  • Production Countries United States of America
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