Welcome to pick me up. I'm scared. The podcast.

I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David. Um, all right,

housekeeping before we start the episode, I started doing something cool on our Patreon. Oh, sit. Oh, that's right. I texted you about it. Yeah. Um, so you guys know know I like do research and I'm on the CIA reading room a lot.

And sometimes I'll stumble across a document where I'm like, oh, this is so interesting.

It has nothing to do with my research right now.

So I just started scheduling them to be posted at random intervals on our Patreon when I find them.

Hell yeah.

So I found some really good ones. I found one that I scheduled to go up and like maybe next week.

That's all about how the USSR's democratic system was structured.

And it's the CIA being like, no, there was democracy in the USSR.

Here's how it worked.

Here's a complete breakdown.

This has been like an old saw of yours for a little while because of the like plots

to assassinate Stalin, right?

No, the plots, the assassination plots that most interested in are the Castro ones, and that's

mostly because they're funny.

I mean, the Castro ones, A, because it was like mafia stuff, like half the time.

It was always ridiculous.

They had that one where they tried to get Castro super high on psychedelic drugs when he had

a TV appearance.

Remember the one where they tried to get something to make his beard fall out?

Yes.

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