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#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There Any Evidence That That Kind of Stuff Works?

Operation Northwoods was a proposed 1962 false flag operation by the DoD and the CIA to commit acts of terrorism on Americans. "Good ideas are oftentimes born from bad ideas," he says. The president would go to Special Activities Division whose job it is to create crazy ideas that have presidential approval, but nobody knows they exist. 'That's what science is about is remain open-minded even for those things that are long shots'

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