So, Condor was reading a foreign novel that somehow revealed a ploy to invade Middle East, so a deep faction within the CIA went on to murder an entire office full of analysts, right? And when one got away, the maverick assassin went on to kill the mastermind behind the murders, and spare the only surviving member of the targeted office. I don't get it, if someone inside the US govt wants to invade Middle East, why do they have to go through novels?
shareWhen you put it that way...
Yeah, I would like to know, too.
LOL 'It was all about oil.' What does that even mean???
share"It was all about oil." is an all purpose answer. I ask
people why do we fight wars in the Middle east; they respond "It was all about oil." I mean buying it would be cheaper than going to war. They want to sell it.
Sure but I meant in the context of the movie. 'It was all about oil that some factions were communicating through hints in some books (who by the way?), and that when something was discovered they went on to massacre them.' Turner said to all this 'It was about oil.' What was?
shareI knew you meant in context of movie. I was commenting on how it is a real world phrase.
shareInteresting movie, haven't seen it in awhile, but if memory serves is was a ROGUE CIA contingent that was interested in starting a war with Arab nations.
I movie was made soon after OPEC put the kabash on the US economy by jacking up the price of oil, so you get where the writers were coming from.
Yes but how is that background woven into the plot? So people inside the cia who wanted to invade Middle East resorted to faux novels to communicate their desire? Through literary plot devices? With whom?
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I just looked it up on wiki.
Redford's character (Turner) wrote a report that had some strange plot elements that had been translated into a unusual assortment of languages.
Somehow this report spooked the rogue spooks, fearing that it would uncover the operation.
How the novel comes into play is a mystery, maybe methods of murder used were the same, maybe cryptology was used in conjunction with the novel as a source book.. what ever it was in the report knew that it could be tracked by the good guys.