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Forty-five years of covert operations the agency fought and rarely admitted to. Each episode takes a single declassified operation: Iran 1953 and Mosaddegh, Guatemala 1954, Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, Phoenix Program, Chile 1973, the Afghan mujahideen pipeline, Iran-Contra, the hunt for Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, the Berlin tunnel, the U-2 programme. The dark companion piece to the Cold War. — a daily series with new episodes every day.
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(00:00:00) The Pattern That Repeated: Covert Operations and Their Long Shadow (00:00:44) A Pattern Built Operation by Operation (00:02:45) The Template and Its Consequences (00:04:22) Plausible Deniability and the Archit
(00:00:00) The Hostage Loop: How Iran-Contra Collapsed Under Its Own Weight (00:01:01) The Architecture of the Scheme (00:02:41) Shultz in the Dark (00:03:51) The Hostage Loop (00:05:02) Casey Before Congress (00:06:35)
(00:00:00) Arms, Hostages, and the Contra Loop: Inside Iran-Contra's Hidden Architecture (00:00:53) The Architecture of the Deal (00:02:44) The Missiles Move (00:04:11) The Perverse Incentive (00:05:22) The Money Flows S
(00:00:00) Operation Cyclone: The Weapons America Sent — and Left Behind (00:00:41) Afghanistan Before the Pipeline (00:02:03) Charlie Wilson (00:03:38) The Stinger Question (00:05:03) The Pipeline Itself (00:06:50) The
(00:00:00) The Church Committee: When Congress Forced the CIA to Answer (00:00:59) How the Door Opened (00:02:32) Frank Church and the Senate Select Committee (00:03:17) The Operations on the Table (00:05:24) The Phoenix
Salvador Allende won Chile's presidency through the ballot box in September 1970. Within seventy-two hours of the September 11, 1973 coup that destroyed his government, the United States had formally recognised the milit
(00:00:00) Make the Economy Scream: Chile, 1970–1973 (00:00:37) Track One and Track Two (00:02:45) The Architecture of Destabilization (00:05:01) The Generals Move (00:06:49) What Followed (00:08:02) Congress Responds (0
(00:00:00) Phoenix Program: The War Inside the War (00:01:13) Building the Shadow-Killing Machine (00:03:03) The Numbers and What They Mean (00:04:56) The Men on the Ground (00:07:01) Colby, Congress, and the Reckoning (
(00:00:00) Operation Gold & the U-2: When the CIA's Best Secrets Were Already Blown (00:01:46) Digging Toward the Enemy (00:04:38) The Plane That Flew Too High to Catch (00:06:48) The Day the Myth Broke (00:09:06) What B
(00:00:00) Mongoose: The Assassination Plots That Unravelled a Superpower (00:01:10) The Kennedy Obsession (00:02:36) The Mechanics of Murder (00:04:41) Lansdale's Wider War (00:05:53) October Changes Everything (00:07:2
(00:00:00) Plausible Deniability: Why the Bay of Pigs Was Doomed Before Dawn (00:01:00) How It Got This Far (00:02:39) The Plan and Its Contradictions (00:04:16) The Air Strike Problem (00:06:06) Seventy-Two Hours (00:07
(00:00:00) PBSUCCESS: The Playbook Is Written in Guatemala (00:00:58) The Setup: Land, Power, and United Fruit (00:02:34) The Misreading (00:04:08) The Operation (00:06:05) What the Agency Took Away (00:07:45) The Plausi
(00:00:00) PBSUCCESS: The Playbook Is Written in Guatemala (00:00:58) The Setup: Land, Power, and United Fruit (00:02:34) The Misreading (00:04:08) The Operation (00:06:05) What the Agency Took Away (00:07:45) The Plausi
(00:00:00) Operation Ajax: How the CIA Learned to Topple Governments (00:01:55) How Britain Recruited America (00:04:33) Operation Ajax Takes Shape (00:06:06) The Coup That Almost Failed (00:07:39) What Ajax Actually Pro
(00:00:00) Operation Ajax: How the CIA Learned to Topple Governments (00:01:55) How Britain Recruited America (00:04:33) Operation Ajax Takes Shape (00:06:06) The Coup That Almost Failed (00:07:39) What Ajax Actually Pro
(00:00:00) Iran 1953: The Coup That Built the CIA's Playbook (00:01:34) The Doctrine of Deniability (00:03:00) Iran and the First Template (00:04:18) The Eisenhower Calculation (00:06:24) Guatemala and the Confidence Pro
(00:00:00) Iran 1953: The Coup That Built the CIA's Playbook (00:01:34) The Doctrine of Deniability (00:03:00) Iran and the First Template (00:04:18) The Eisenhower Calculation (00:06:24) Guatemala and the Confidence Pro
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