Brennan Center for Justice

Please join the Brennan Center as we present

 The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

a film screening and conversation about

"The Necessity of Overseeing America’s Spy Agencies"

featuring

Carl Colby, Director/Producer of The Man Nobody Knew and son of former CIA Director William Colby

in conversation with

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Chief Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and former Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Lipton Hall at New York University School of Law

108 West Third Street

New York, NY

William Colby began his intelligence career during World War II as an OSS officer who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe. After the war, he rose through the CIA ranks, oversaw the coup against President Diem in Saigon, and ran the controversial Phoenix Program. But after decades of obediently taking on the White House’s toughest and dirtiest assignments and rising to become Director of the CIA, Colby landed in hot water for breaking with the agency’s history of limited disclosure and revealing to the U.S. Senate’s Church Committee some of the agency’s darkest, most tightly held secrets and extra-legal operations.

Perhaps because America has a special fascination with the CIA, or perhaps because Colby seemed genuinely bothered by the CIA’s excesses, his decision to cooperate with the Church Committee’s investigation cost William Colby his job but might have saved the agency.

After the screening, Colby’s son Carl, the movie’s Director and Producer, and the Brennan Center’s Chief Counsel, Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., who was Chief Counsel to the Church Committee, will discuss the unique challenges inherent to intelligence oversight.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to Kimberly.Lubrano@nyu.edu or (646) 292-8342.