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The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1969), by Sam Greenlee, is the fictional story of Dan Freeman, the first black CIA officer, and of the CIA's history of training persons and political groups who later used their specialised training in gathering intelligence, political subversion, and guerrilla warfare against the CIA.
Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. (July 13, 1930 – May 19, 2014) [1] was an American writer of fiction and poetry. He is best known for his novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, first published in March 1969 in London by the recently founded small imprint Allison & Busby (with Ghanaian-born Margaret Busby as its editor), having been rejected by dozens of mainstream publishers, [2] and received much ...
Tambay A. Obenson, "Watch 45-Minute A-to-Z Sam Greenlee Interview on 'The Spook Who Sat By the Door ' ", Shadow and Act, April 20, 2015. Melvin T. Peters, "Sam Greenlee and the Revolutionary Tradition in African American Literature in the 19th-21st Centuries". Delivered at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Liberation Film ...
The Spook Who Sat by the Door may refer to: . The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a 1969 novel by Sam Greenlee; The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a 1973 film based on the novel; The Spook Who Sat by the Door, a FX series based on the novel
Y’lan Noel has been cast as Dan Freeman, the protagonist in the FX adaptation of Sam Greenlee’s spy novel, “The Spook Who Sat By the Door,” which is being executive produced by Lee Daniels.
After attaining success throughout Europe with their album S.I.O.S.O.S., Vol. 1, Spooks garnered a hit with the single, "Things I've Seen", which featured in the Laurence Fishburne film Once in the Life (2000) as well as the intro for the European version of the American TV series Dark Angel.
The Spook Who Sat By the Door is adapted from Sam Greenlee's novel and directed by Ivan Dixon with music by Herbie Hancock. A token black CIA employee, who is secretly a black nationalist, leaves his position to train a street gang in CIA tactics and guerilla warfare to become an army of "freedom fighters".
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