MoL presents fragments of a lost film script.
CLOSE-UP:- Multi-coloured fishing flies in storage boxes.
ANGLETON: Flamingo Zonker. Yellow Goofus Bug. Egg-sucking Leach. Ah, the Gray Ghost.
The Gray Ghost is a classic American freestone-river design and one of ANGLETON’s favourites. Ochre floss-silk body ribbed with flat silver tinsel, black silk nose, white buck tail, and gray cock hackles sweeping sleekly back, like wings.
ANGLETON: We believed the Russians were years ahead in terms of mind control.
The bait collection includes several plastic mice.
ANGLETON: I remember out on the night river, fishing with Cord Meyer, taking a canoe into the open still water for the big cannibal trout. We cast a short line using a fake mouse. There was a huge smash (bangs table) as the trout took the mouse.
He goes back to studying the flies.
ANGLETON: You seek to imagine the world of the trout while giving the illusion of a real fly, and the trout believes in that moment you are the fly. We hired shrinks, quacks and hypnotists. Formed unthinkable alliances, studied the nuances of hostile interrogation and asked how much was it possible to fuck with someone’s head.