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3. America’s Secret Weapon

Wind of Change

CHAPTER

I've Seemed the Elephant, but I'm Done.

In 19 77, brant bassett served as escort officer for the nitty gritdy dirt band. In 19 81 he joined c i a wanting to continue his personal fight against communism. He retired from c i a in 19 99, when it had become a lethargic, paper pushing shell of its former self. And this is gets really weird, because we found someone who said that when the scorpions toured behind the iron curtain, that's exactly what the band was doing. Wind of change is an original series from pineapple street studios and produced by patric radan and henry malowski.

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