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545 - The 1984 Olympic Games

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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How to Stop the Soviets Using Jews

Chief gates used the thread of terrorism to justify expanding information gathering. The only real scare was when police officer jimmie wade pearson found a pipe bomb in the wheel well of a turkish olympic team busk. He ran it out to the air tarma, where he ripped out a wire, disarming it. Yose the armenian secret army for the liberation of armenia called and took responsibility for planting the bomb. Gates said the soviets would use jewish emigres to disrupt the games, which was an insane conspiracy theory. So those groups held no violent protest. They just held protests. And they were protesting that funds raised should go to

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