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     • No, ‘Trouble With The Curve’ is not based on a story. The realistic storyline is a creation of writer Randy Brown, whose other works include ‘Miracles from Heaven.’ He became interested in baseball at a young age, and his passion for the game is one of the main reasons the movie is centered around baseball.
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   Did CIA prove curveballs based on a true story?

   • Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's address to the United Nations on Feb. 5, 2003, was a pivotal moment in the run-up to the war. Powell stated that the CIA assured him the evidence, much of it based on Curveball's account, was solid. However, Powell later admitted in 2005 that the case "has totally blown up in our faces.

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   Was curveball a 'blue' source?

   • Curveball was a German intelligence source labeled 'blue', meaning the Germans would not permit U.S. access to him. Curveball expressed his hatred towards Americans to the Germans, and as a result, the DIA, like the BND, did not attempt to check Curveball’s background or verify his accounts before sending reports to other U.S. intelligence agencies.

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   What happened to curveball?

   • After being granted asylum in 2001, Curveball largely ceased cooperating. He would refuse to meet for days, and then weeks, at a time. He also increasingly asked for money. ‘He knew he was important,’ said the BND analyst. ‘He was not an idiot.’ Defectors are often problem sources.

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   What did curveball mean?

   • Their clandestine operating base was an elegant 19th century mansion known as Munich House. Curveball was the codename assigned to the person there. The base cryptonym ‘ball’ was used to signify weapons, two former U.S. intelligence officials said. An earlier informant in Germany, for example, was called Matchball.

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   Is Curveball a reliable source?

   • British intelligence is not convinced that Curveball is a wholly reliable source. The presidential commission reported that 'elements of [his] behavior strike us as typical of fabricators.’

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   How did Curveball behave towards his new friends?

   • Curveball, like many defectors, initially seemed eager to please his new friends. He thanked them and laughed at their jokes. He was charming and clearly intelligent, providing complex engineering details. However, as the questions intensified, Curveball grew moody and irritable. His memory began to fail, and he confused places and dates.

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3. www.latimes.com › world › middleeastHow U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' - Los Angeles Times

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   Nov 20, 2005 · Curveball was the chief source of inaccurate prewar U.S. accusations that Baghdad had biological weapons, a commission appointed by Bush reported this year. The commission did not interview...

4. variety.com › 2020 › film'Curveball' Review: The Unbelievable True Story of Iraq's ...

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   Apr 1, 2020 · German director Johannes Naber delivers an exaggerated and seldom funny satire of the bungled intelligence reports used to justify the 2003 bombing of Iraq. Farce is not a genre we commonly ...

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6. www.screendaily.com › reviews › curveball-berlin‘Curveball’: Berlin Review | Reviews | Screen - Screen Daily

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   Feb 27, 2020 · “Based on a true story, unfortunately,” reads a caption at the start of Johannes Naber’s entertaining account of the story behind a lie which had global repercussions.

7. berlinbeyond.com › focus › moviesCurveball (with Q&A) - Berlin & Beyond in Focus

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   CURVEBALL tells the grotesque, at times even surreal, true story of how the Iraq war was started based on nothing but fake intelligence and the involvement of the German government / German secret service.

8. www.goodreads.com › en › bookCurveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War

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   Jul 8, 2022 · Curveball is a true story, marvelously reported, about a descent into the netherworld of deceit and duplicity, where the lies of a single man in an interrogation cell in Germany grew like a malign spore in the dark.

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9. www.youtube.com › watchCURVEBALL – A TRUE STORY. UNFORTUNATELY Trailer | PÖFF 2020

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   TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVALIn Focus: New German CinemaCurveball – A True Story. Unfortunately.by director Johannes NaberGermany, 2020

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10. cineuropa.org › en › newsdetailReview: Curveball - Cineuropa

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    Feb 28, 2020 · Premiering in the Berlinale Special section of the 70 th Berlinale, director Johannes Naber’s often outrageous delivery occasionally relies on artistic licence, while some of the most surreal sequences are very much based on real fake news.