NR | 2h 8min | Suspense Thriller | 2014
Given his life-long dedication to American national security, it must have been a bitter irony for the late CIA officer David Forden that the Sept. 11 terror attacks occurred on his birthday. At least he could take comfort knowing he helped manage and protect one of the most important sources in American intelligence history.
However, it did not come without costs for his whistle-blowing mole, Polish People’s Army Col. Ryszard Kuklinski. Alarmed by the USSR’s escalating militancy and its preparations for Polish martial law, Kuklinski supplied game-changing information to Forden and his CIA colleagues.
Kuklinski’s real-life espionage remains controversial in Poland, but he is the unambiguously heroic protagonist of Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s fact-based thriller, “Jack Strong,” which streams on multiple platforms….