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Operation C.I.A. movie storyline. When Agent Stacey learns of a plan to assassinate the American ambassador to Vietnam but is killed by a bomb before he can inform the C.I.A. of the details, Secret Agent Mark Andrews is sent to Saigon to take his place as a university professor as a cover while he attempts to prevent the assassination of the American ambassador that is expected to occur sometime within the next five days.
Operation C.I.A. is a 1965 black-and-white spy film directed by Christian Nyby and starring Burt Reynolds, Danielle Aubry, John Hoyt, Kieu Chinh, Vic Diaz, Marsh Thomson, Marsh Thomson, John Laughinghouse, rank Estes, Michael Schwiner, Robert Gulbranson and Janet Russell.
The film was originally titled Last Message from Saigon with an announcement made in 1964 it would be filmed in Saigon, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Allied Artists filmed A Yank in Viet-Nam on actual South Vietnamese locations, but the security situation had deteriorated to such an extent that the safety of the filmmakers could not be guaranteed.
Operation C.I.A. (1965)
Directed by: Christian Nyby
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Danielle Aubry, John Hoyt, Kieu Chinh, Vic Diaz, Marsh Thomson, Marsh Thomson, John Laughinghouse, rank Estes, Michael Schwiner, Robert Gulbranson, Janet Russell
Screenplay by: Bill S. Ballinger, Peer J. Oppenheimer
Cinematography by: Richard Moore
Film Editing by: Joseph Gluck, George Watters
Makeup Department: Jay Sebring
Music by: Paul Dunlap
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Allied Artists
Release Date: September 8, 1965
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