#451 – Rick Spence: CIA, KGB, Illuminati, Secret Societies, Cults & Conspiracies
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 217 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:04) - KGB and CIA
(23:21) - Okhrana, Cheka, NKVD
(38:53) - CIA spies vs KGB spies
(45:29) - Assassinations and mind control
(52:23) - Jeffrey Epstein
(59:15) - Bohemian Grove
(1:11:09) - Occultism
(1:22:20) - Nazi party and Thule society
(2:02:38) - Protocols of the Elders of Zion
(2:35:43) - Charles Manson
(3:02:30) - Zodiac Killer
(3:13:24) - Illuminati
(3:20:48) - Secret societies
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| 0:00.0 | The Following is a conversation with Rick Spence, a historian specializing in the history of |
| 0:06.2 | intelligence agencies espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult and military history. |
| 0:15.4 | And now a quick few second mention of a sponsor. |
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| 0:28.9 | and Shopify for selling stuff online. |
| 0:32.4 | Choose wisely my friends. Also if you want to get in touch with me for a bunch of different kinds of reasons |
| 0:38.7 | go to Lex Friedman.com slash contact and now on to the full ad reads. I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, please |
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| 0:50.9 | This episode is brought to you by A.G. 1, an all-in-one daily drink to support |
| 0:57.2 | a better health and peak performance. A drink I have not been consuming for the last few days because |
| 1:01.8 | I'm traveling, and it's the thing that makes |
| 1:03.8 | me miss home. I'm in San Francisco allowing myself to be surrounded and inspired by some |
| 1:11.0 | incredible software engineering that's going on here and putting all the other mess of |
| 1:16.2 | politics and social bubble stuff aside. So I'm doing a lot of programming and having a lot of really highly deep technical conversations. |
| 1:26.6 | But I definitely miss Austin. |
| 1:28.6 | I miss Texas. |
| 1:30.4 | I miss Boston and walking the halls of MIT |
| 1:34.4 | released the university I intimately know now and there's something about a |
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