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Former CIA analyst Frank Snepp told me last week that a docudrama based on his 1999 memoir, Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the Agency in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech, will be helmed by Eugene Jarecki, known for the muckraking documentaries Why We Fight and The Trials of Henry Kissinger, for HBO. 

Emmy Winner Paula Weinstein, lately of Recount, HBO's recent docudrama on the 2000 Florida presidential ballot battle, will produce, says the trade mag Variety. 

The CIA took Snepp, now a producer at Los Angeles TV station KNBC, to court over his searing expose, Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End, Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam. The Supreme Court agreed with the agency that Snepp did not have the right to publish his memoir without first submitting it for review. The court heard no oral arguments, but agreed with then-CIA chief Adm. Stansfield Turner that Decent Interval  had "caused the United States irreparable harm and loss."