First-Time Viewing
Covert Action
Release Date:June 1, 1980
Running Time:100 min
Genres:Action, Crime
Director
Cast
David JanssenArthur KennedyMaurizio MerliCorinne CléryIvan RassimovGiacomo Rossi StuartPhilippe Leroy
Top billed cast (via TMDB).
Synopsis
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.
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