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"Agent of Influence" from 2002 is the disturbing true story of the CIA's framing of the Canadian Ambassador to the USSR (Christopher Plummer) by exposing him as a Russian agent. In so doing, they want to force him to implicate the Prime Minister at the time, Pearson.
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- Crime, Drama
- Michel Poulette
- 2002-06
At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ambassador to Moscow and a close friend of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, is kidnapped and held in a hotel for questioning by the RCMP at the urging of the CIA. Several days into the interrogation he died.
In 1964 during the height of the Cold War, the Canadian Ambassador to Moscow, John Watkins (Christopher Plummer) is accused by the CIA and given some heavy interrogation for being a double agent for the KGB and use dirty tactics such as trying to out him as a homosexual.
Agent of Influence. The Suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a Canadian diplomat (Christopher Plummer).
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Jun 30, 2002 · At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ambassador to Moscow and a close friend of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, is kidnapped and held in a hotel for questioning by the RCMP at the urging of the CIA. Several days into the interrogation he died.
Starring Christopher Plummer, Marina Orsini, and Ted Whittall, the movie explores the murky world of espionage and terrorism, as Canada becomes embroiled in a web of deceit and betrayal. The story centers around Norman Rabb, a Canadian intelligence agent played by Christopher Plummer.
From Ian Adams' book of the same name, "Agent of Influence" is based on a real story of the intrigue surrounding the mysterious death of one of Canada's most accomplished foreign diplomats, John Watkins.
