
Ep. 74: Church and Deep State (Part 1)
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
The Wire: A Memoir of a CIA Lifer
In World War II, Colby parachuted behind enemy lines in Norway as a member of the CIA's predecessor organization. By the 60s, Colby's back and he runs something that's really one of an infamous chapter in CIA history known as Operation Phoenix. He was effectively training up a South Vietnamese, call it a death squad. And I think probably this kind of stuff might be like a predecessor to the Winter Olympic sport of the Biaathalon which involves shooting in cross-country skiing.
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