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Apr 25, 2025 • 41min
Angleton, Mossad, the Mob, and CIA "Cuban Business" - Part 1 (DCC77)
This episode features a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” About a year ago I discovered a page in James Angleton’s 1975 Church Committee testimony that the CIA tried to hide by deleting in subsequent releases. The 86ed page—which happened to be page 86—shows that CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton did not tell CIA director John McCone that, in order to bypass the entire CIA, Angleton was using a Mossad officer as an operational agent for anti-Castro operations in Cuba. The outcome was that there was very little paper trail at the Agency when it came to the details of Angleton’s mobbed-up “Cuban business”—especially the assassination apparatus which many JFK assassination researchers believe was later redirected at President Kennedy.
To get access to the complete archive of the best historical research on deep political events and the tripartite state, subscribe to the American Exception podcast on Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Apr 24, 2025 • 1h 30min
The Deep State at the Twilight of Empire (Wayne State University - DCC76 - Audio)
This episode features my recent speaking appearance at Wayne State University. Deep appreciation for to Professor Khari Brown as well as the Wayne State Sociology, African-American Studies, and History departments---and to Wiley Michelle Boley for filming and editing!
To get access to the complete archive of the best historical research on deep political events and the tripartite state, subscribe to the American Exception podcast on Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Apr 3, 2025 • 10min
ew JFK Documents and the Gray Alliance - Part 1 (AE202)
This is the first of a two-part series with Max Arvo covering the new JFK document releases in the context of our Gray Alliance series as well as my new article which centers on one of these documents.
Check out the article: "James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'"
Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode and Casey Moore for the episode art!

Apr 2, 2025 • 1h 18min
Deep State Denial and the Fake Left of the West – Christian Parenti (DCC75 - Audio)
Christian Parenti joins us to discuss a number of his recent articles, each of which addresses aspects of the feckless, co-opted US Left. Christian Parenti is Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY. His academic work focuses on: American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His most recent bookis 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder'.
This discussion is centered around three of his recent articles:
The Cargo Cult of Woke
How the Organized Left Got Covid Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost Its Mind: An Autopsy
The Left-Wing Origins of ‘Deep State’ Theory
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Apr 1, 2025 • 11min
CHAOS on Netflix: A Modified Catch and Kill? (AE201)
Max Arvo joins Aaron to discuss the disastrous Netflix “adaptation” of Tom O’Neill’s masterpiece, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.
Check out these interviews, any of which are better than Errol Morris’ passive-aggressive Netflix farce: Audio & Video for CHAOS
Music: "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Mar 31, 2025 • 1h 31min
Deep State Leftovers! (DCC74 - Audio)
Aaron and Bryce devote the episode to answering patron questions that we couldn't get to in the monthly American Exception Zoom session.
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Mar 19, 2025 • 1h 23min
Gladio, NATO, and Imperial British Gangsterism (DCC73)
Aaron is joined again by prolific anti-imperialist journalist and forensic historian, Kit Klarenberg. His work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. In the episode, Kit and Aaron discuss Kit's recent article "Britain: Operation Gladio's Secret 'Headquarters'" along with related subjects.
Check out his work at:
Global Delinquents
Active Measures
Grayzone
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Mar 18, 2025 • 8min
Ruby’s Run – Part 4 (AE200)
Max Arvo and I are back for the fourth and final (?) episode in our series on Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. After he killed Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby’s life became a nightmare from which he could never be allowed to escape...until he died from an extremely aggressive cancer case which progressed so rapidly as to seem almost unnatural.
Check out the articles here:
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Mar 18, 2025 • 1h 28min
Deep State in Deep Crisis – (DCC72)
Bryce Greene and Aaron discuss unfolding events here at the twilight of the American Century:
Trump’s “Truth” tweet which turns US policy on Russia and NATO 180 degrees
Vice President JD Vance’s speech to EU leaders…Will history remember it as the “Munich Massacre”?
Bernie Sanders 2025 version looking bad
how the bull market for gold may portend the end of the post-Bretton Woods Rumpelstiltskin dollar
how a Zionist-on-Zionist mini-crime wave broke out in Florida
how Canada is jailing people for criticizing genocide advocates on social media
Check out:
Bryce Greene’s article: “Marco Rubio Is At The State Department To Push US Aggression Around The World”
Bryce Greene's Newsletter
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Feb 25, 2025 • 8min
AE199 - Ruby’s Run – Part 3
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February 18
Max Arvo and I are back for the third of four episodes discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby which were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. Max’s research and articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own legal team, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare. Ultimately, the account reveals the horror show that Ruby’s life became. Now more than ever, the life and death of Jack Ruby are a synecdoche for the American deep state.
Check out the articles here:
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
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