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Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

How to Overthrow Francisco Franco

Robert Brown was hired by the AP to interview a refugee Spanish general promising to overthrow Francisco Franco. He struck up a friendly acquaintanceship with the general who had helped to train Castro's gorillas. So this guy gives Brown a copy of a book called 150 questions for a gorilla and it's the militant kind. Not the yeah. It's a manual for like so funny. I just picked up Mao's book on guerrilla warfare and the first thing I thought was like while he was reading it I was like so he taught gorillas to find one. This is the dumbest joke but it made me laugh for a good 15 minutes. Yeah. And I haven't been able to start that book

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