The amazing story of how Hollywood took on Communism and played a key role in winning the Cold War. The story begins in the middle of WW2 when Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, joins British Naval Intelligence. He is so successful that he is sent across the Atlantic to help America set up the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, precursor to the CIA. This extraordinary organization, headed by ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, recruits top Hollywood director John Ford and rising star Sterling Hayden for its undercover campaigns in occupied Europe and the Far East. When the war ends, Ford and Hayden return to Hollywood only to find a new conflict has broken out: the Cold War. It’s a different kind of war, but the stakes are just as high. As America is gripped by the ‘Red Scare’, Hollywood stars are asked to stand up and declare their opposition to Communist ideology. One prominent actor in the anticommunist campaign is Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors’ Guild. He works as an informer for the FBI and becomes the public face of Radio Free Europe, a CIA funded radio station, which broadcasts to Eastern Europe. In 1961 a Soviet officer, Oleg Penkowsky, contacts the US embassy in Moscow and offers to spy for America. He passes on hundreds of secret documents, including design drawings of Soviet missile launch sites. When in 1963 Penkovsky’s documents are crosschecked with photographs from a U2 spy plane, the world is thrown into crisis. Russia has been secretly sending nuclear missiles to Cuba, just 90 miles off the Florida coast. Fidel Castro, Cuba’s communist leader, has been the target of many secret CIA assassination plots, but now the United States prepares for all out war. After several tense weeks, the Soviets finally back down and agree to remove the missiles, but they continue to manufacture huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons.