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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence

CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence

Brandon Givens & Topher M. Ford

We explore the history of the Central Intelligence Agency by telling the stories of the individuals who lived through it. We'll discuss the villains, the victims, and the heroes. We'll uncover the motivations and the ideals of the people who set into motion world-changing events that have steered global politics along the course that has led us to where we are today. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ciafiles/support
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After the Roswell crash in 1947, UFO sightings became commonplace across the country. Local authorities and government agencies became overrun with reports of strange objects in the sky, performing impossible feats before zooming off into the distance.

But it would be more than a decade before another famous element of alien encounters would be introduced, this one being more nefarious than miraculous crafts in the sky -- alien abductions. And this strange phenomenon would begin with a young man named Antonio Villas Boas.

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Raw File News Episode 19, May 10, 2022

Raw File News Episode 19, May 10, 2022

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05/10/22 • 87 min

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/exclusive-cia-chief-told-bolsonaro-government-not-mess-with-brazil-election-2022-05-05/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nkorea-fires-unidentified-projectile-off-its-east-coast-skorea-military-2022-05-07/

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/yemen-officials-commanders-killed-clash-militants-84560637

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220506-saudi-led-coalition-says-frees-yemen-rebels-in-peace-gesture

https://news.yahoo.com/yemens-war-weary-taez-choked-025617629.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/guinea-orders-legal-proceedings-against-ousted-president-alpha-conde-2022-05-04/

https://news.yahoo.com/putin-apologizes-to-israel-for-bizarre-nazi-comments-170121084.html

https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1523085136530927616

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-official-complains-west-aiding-ukraine-keeping-war-going-1703882

https://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-denies-us-shared-intel-192016395.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-war-us-spy-plane-on-patrol-in-black-sea-before-sinking-of-russian-flagship-moskva-fblbg0znd

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-bucha-killings-soldiers/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/diplomatic-efforts-seek-save-ukraine-fighters-mariupol-zelenskiy-2022-05-07/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-azovstal-steelworks-evacuation-focuses-wounded-medics-2022-05-08/

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Episode 2: George Hunter White, part 2: "I was too rough for their league."
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04/26/21 • 35 min

CIA mad scientist Sidney Gottlieb had job opening that might as well have been custom-made for Goerge Hunter White. White had experience in drugging people for experiments during his time in the OSS. He loved drugs himself. He had few scruples when it came to committing acts of cruelty and violence. And perhaps most importantly, he had access to low-level criminals and other social outcasts -- people who would never consider reporting anything done to them to law enforcement. So it was that White would become a key figure in the horror story that was Project MK ULTRA by running his own side project, Operation Midnight Climax.

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Episode 1: George Hunter White, part 1: "Actually, A Heretic"

Episode 1: George Hunter White, part 1: "Actually, A Heretic"

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04/12/21 • 30 min

Few people seem to be so lucky as to discover their true purpose in life, and even fewer seem tenacious enough to truly dedicate their entire lives to that purpose. In that regard, George Hunter White may have been the luckiest, most tenacious man to ever live. White’s life was one of lies, drugs, sex, manipulation, coercion, extortion, violence, and murder. And when he reached the end of his life, he was long considered a hero by many.

For a list of our sources, visit www.ciafiles.net.

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A string of odd coincidences has Brandon posing some interesting hypotheticals about what might be happening behind the scenes in Moscow as Putin's bloody invasion seems to be scratching some unusual itches. There's the occasional fire at one or two or three (who's counting?) top secret Russian facilities, and a handful of strange murder-suicides among Russia's retired oligarch community.

Also, are you a useful idiot? If so, congratulations! At least you're not an unuseful idiot like me. I kid. I washed the dishes yesterday, so I've got some value.

All of that and more awaits you in this week's episode of CIA Files: Raw File News!

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https://www.ciafiles.net/raw-file-news-is-russias-fsb-is-ready-to-break-up-with-putin-were-just-asking-questions-is-all/

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Raw File News Episode 18, May 3, 2022

Raw File News Episode 18, May 3, 2022

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05/03/22 • 70 min

I don't feel well, so imagine a clever blurb and insert that here.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reputed-federal-informant-whistleblower-found-dead-l-reported-missing-rcna26382

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/valentin-broeksmit-federal-informant-whistleblower-dead-el-sereno-high-school/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/28/yemen-saudi-arabia-to-release-163-houthi-prisoners

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-government-hunting-uyghurs-world-help-surprising-countries-rcna24987

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/the-deal-that-shocked-the-world-inside-the-china-solomons-security-pact

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/solomon-islands-pm-says-wont-accept-militarisation-pacific-2022-04-29/

https://intelnews.org/2022/04/29/01-3193/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-failed-integration-immigrants-gang-violence-b2067626.html

https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-g20-summit-indonesia-zelenskyy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/indonesia-pushed-to-ask-ukraine-to-g-20-summit-alongside-putin

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-spy-chief-says-us-poland-plotting-division-ukraine-2022-04-28/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/30/depleted-russian-units-that-failed-to-take-kyiv-ukraine-are-merging-says-mod

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russia-stole-several-hundred-thousand-tonnes-grain-2022-04-30

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3472447-what-we-know-about-the-ghost-of-kyiv/

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Coming Soon: James Jesus Angleton, part 3

Coming Soon: James Jesus Angleton, part 3

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04/21/22 • 2 min

News of President Kennedy’s assassination sent shockwaves around the world. And at the epicenter of those shockwaves sat one Jim Angleton. His actions following Kennedy’s death would help stoke tales of conspiracies that, perhaps, people within the U.S. government had killed their own Commander-In-Chief, a concern the President himself expressed just before his untimely death.

Angleton played a key role in the investigation of President Kennedy’s murder, though what that role was is still hard to say.

Along the way, Angleton's paranoia and misplaced trust would destroy the careers of faithful CIA officers and sincere Soviet defectors.

Eventually, Angleton would be forced out of the agency, and the extent of his secret empire would be uncovered, revealing the vast trove of secrets squirreled away in the floorboards of the intelligence agency he helped to build.

Coming soon, the conclusion to the story of James Jesus Angleton, on CIA Files, True Stories of U.S. Intelligence.

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Raw File News Episode 2; CIA Files

Raw File News Episode 2; CIA Files

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05/18/21 • 47 min

We take a look at headlines from around the globe. This week, we discuss the kerfuffle that cost a Swiss intelligence leader his job. We discuss the consequences of the CIA's vaccine tracking in their hunt for Osama Bin Laden and how it has made eliminating polio in the area a difficult task. And the CIA steps up its investigation into mysterious "directed-energy" attacks, finally adding the most obvious candidate, Russia's GRU, to its suspects list. Oh, and there's something going on in Israel right now. We break down the history that led to the present, and discuss why this situation looks like it does now.

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British aristocrat Donald Maclean, as a member of the Cambridge 5, worked his way to the top of the British Foreign Office while secretly working as KGB spy. His wife was in on it the whole time. How did an extremely wealthy and noticeable couple successfully spy for so long, and why? Learn about their backgrounds, deeds, and fates. This is the fourth episode to deal with the Cambridge 5. The other episodes are: Episode 7: Secret Agent Super Spy: Harold Kim Philby: The 1st in a series on the Cambridge 5, Episode 10: Kim Philby Part 2: I Really Must Be Going; The second episode on our series on the Cambridge 5, & Episode 11: Guy Burgess: I Gotta Be Me! This is the third episode in our series on the Cambridge 5. (First 2 are episodes 7 & 10)

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CIA Files: True Stories of U.S Intelligence - Episode 19: CIA Files: Donald Trump's FBI Woes

Episode 19: CIA Files: Donald Trump's FBI Woes

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08/16/22 • 64 min

On Monday, August 8th, the FBI conducted a search of Trump’s Mar A Lago mansion, seizing 11 boxes of documents. It was later disclosed that the boxes were classified material, including some labeled Top Secret, that the National Archives and the Department of Justice say Trump was not authorized to take with him after he left the White House.

In mid January, 2022, 15 boxes of presidential records were moved from Mar A Lago back to National Archives. Officials involved in the matter said Trump dragged his feet on the request for documents from his time in the White House, but eventually gave in. Mid-February, classified information was found in the documents retrieved from Mar A Lago. This raised concerns about what other classified material he might still have. It also raises the possibility that Trump broke federal law by bringing classified material to his Florida home.

Officials from the National Archive also noticed that there were a number of documents that should have been returned but were still missing. Around June, members of the DoJ and the FBI visited Mar A Lago to meet with Trump’s lawyers about the possibility that Trump still had classified material there. They issued a subpoena for more documents. Trump’s lawyers responded, saying any and all classified documents that Trump may have had were returned with the boxes turned over to the National Archives in January.

On Friday, August 5, a judge issues a search warrant for Trump’s Florida home, and the FBI exercises the warrant and searches Trump’s Mar A Lago mansion. Trump’s lawyers were apparently given about 45 minutes’ notice. It’s worth noting that the White House says it had no advanced knowledge about the raid, and the current FBI director, Chris Wray, was appointed by Trump.

The GOP and right-wing media immediately began crying foul. Trump supporters began protesting. Calls for violence against the FBI and other government organizations began flooding social media.

On Thursday, August 11, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that he initiated the request for the search warrant. That same Thursday, 42-year-old Navy veteran and Trump supporter Ricky Shiff attacked the FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was eventually killed by law enforcement.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ohio-shooting-fbi-standoff-shiffer-latest-b2144460.html

The Department of Homeland Security has issued a statement saying the threat of more violence is extremely high at the moment.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-dhs-warn-us-law-enforcement-threats-after-trump-search-2022-08-14/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/08/11/garland-trump-mar-a-lago/

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/515700-trump-disclosed-secret-weapons-system-to-woodward-book/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/15/super-duper-missile-us-trump-military https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-mar-lago-security-nightmare-111008352.html

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