54. It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, it’s…Operation Condor!

Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.

Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

Society & Culture

4.8 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, Madeline and Kenna talk about CIA-backed military coups, what Chase and Pepsi have in common, and the horrifying history of Operation Condor! PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america http://www.cels.org.ar/especiales/plancondor/en/ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB125/index.htm https://theconversation.com/operation-condor-why-victims-of-the-oppression-that-swept-1970s-south-america-are-still-fighting-for-justice-186789 https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/events/operation-condor-1968-1989 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-cia-documents.html https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/00452069 https://unredacted.com/tag/operation-condor/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/operation-condor-european-spies-dictators-cia-documents https://jacobin.com/2020/11/operation-condor-cia-latin-america-repression-torture

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, Kenna.
0:28.8	Okay, Kenna, today, we are recording from Portland, Oregon. Yep. We are here on a work trip.
0:35.1	Yep. Woo-boo. It's been very-poo. It's been very nice.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:38.7	It's been very nice.
0:43.1	So our episode today, it might be a small one.
0:48.0	But also, it might, we might just talk incessantly and Philip all the time.
0:49.7	So I love that, kind of not knowing.
0:51.4	It's spontaneous for us, right?
0:51.9	Always.
0:55.8	We, you know, we are, you never know with that.
0:56.7	We're wild cards.
0:57.5	We're wild cards.
0:58.7	You never know what you're going to get.
0:59.8	Okay.
1:11.8	So, kind of to start off today's episode, I wanted to ask you, we talk a lot about weird things the FBI and the CIA have done on this podcast.
1:15.1	Yeah, like trying to make Castro's beard fall out.
1:23.4	Right. I was going to ask you what you think the most shocking CIA act of all time that you've learned about has been.
1:26.1	Was it the beard one? Because the beard one does stand out in my mind. I mean, I feel like all of it just is like inspect, like, is what does that show?
1:32.9	Get smart.
1:33.7	It's all like Get Smart.
1:35.0	Yeah.
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