The Re-Education with Eli Lake

Ep. 74: Church and Deep State (Part 1)

Jun 30, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Pentagon Papers

4min

The Watergate Story Is About a President That Bent the Spy Agencies Against Political Opponents

5min

Nixon and the CIA

3min

The Bay of Pigs and the CIA

2min

The End of the CIA

5min

The Wire: A Memoir of a CIA Lifer

3min

The Deep State of the US Agency in Vietnam

3min

Sy Hersh and A.M. Rosenthal

1min

10.

Sy Hersh's Interview With Bill Colby

6min

11.

The CIA's Domestic Spying Program

3min

12.

The Deep State Narrative

5min

13.

Gerald Ford and the Clinton Administration

3min

14.

The Dilemma of Ford and Rosenthal

4min

15.

Church and Deep State: A Biography of Senator Frank Church

3min

16.

The Life and Times of Frank Church

4min

17.

The Importance of Corrupt Politics in the Senate

3min

18.

The Honorable Thing to Do Welker

2min

19.

The Importance of Opposition Research in Politics

3min

20.

The Progressive Era of Reform

2min

21.

The Crown Jewels: A History of the CIA's Domestic Spying on Anti-War Demonstrators and Civil Rights Activists

3min

22.

Nixon's Hate of Schlesinger

2min

23.

The Greatest Scandal of the 1970s

3min

24.

The Church Committee's Legacy

1min

25.

The Bipartisan Nature of the Church Committee

3min

26.

The Church Committee's Findings on the FBI and the CIA

2min

27.

The Politics of Church

2min

28.

The Church Committee's Top Takeaways

2min

29.

The Church Committee's Focus on the CIA's Plot to Kill Castro

2min

30.

Robert Mayhew and the CIA Mafia

2min

31.

Hoover and the Bay of Pigs

3min

32.

The Kennedys and Hoover's Confrontation

3min

33.

The Importance of Levinson in the Civil Rights Movement

2min

34.

Bobby Kennedy's Fear of Hoover

1min

35.

The Wiretapping of Sam Gian Kana

4min

36.

The Problem With Gian Kana's Killing

2min

37.

The Covert Action Operation Condor

2min

38.

The Role of Cold War Presidents in Domestic Surveillance

2min

39.

The Politics of the CIA and the Church Committee

2min

40.

The Legacy of the Church Committee

2min

41.

The Great Achievement of the Church Committee

4min

In this very special episode, Eli explores the moment when Americans finally learned what their deep state did in the shadows. This monologue covers the period between Daniel Ellsberg's leak of the Pentagon Papers and the creation of the Rockefeller Commission to study the intelligence community's past abuses. His guests are James and Thomas Risen, the authors of a new biography of Senator Frank Church: The Last Honest Man.

Time Stamps:

00:31 Monologue

48:55 Interview with James and Thomas Risen

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