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S1E5: A Script for Nuclear War

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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The Soviet Military's Intelligence Department

The Soviet military had their own intelligence department called the GRU. Oleg Gordievsky says that during Abel Archer 83, those GRU guys were looking pretty stressed out. They were sitting like mice day and night during the Abel Archer exercise. And back in Belgium? Well, the temperature was going up there too. The Warsaw Pact started to use chemical weapons. That's Taylor Downing again, talking about the able archer script. It's November 7th. One can only wonder if what was really going on in that hospital room is the Soviet leadership preparing a nuclear attack of their own.

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