Bonus Sample: Sex, Lies, & Communist Spies

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Subscribe for full episode The MAGA attack on government jobs, takeover of government agencies, and purge of supposed “DEI” and “woke” professionals has a long history in the US. Julian uses old-timey newsreels, biographies, and events in the public record to trace the lines from 1919 to today, making stops at the so-called Red Summer’s “race riots,” Red Scare communist panics, Hollywood Blacklist, and Lavender Scare that fired thousands for being presumed gay. Unrelated to any of this completely useless and repressive paranoid bigotry, actual Soviet spies were being apprehended and prosecuted—even then everything was not on the level. The prosecutors had their own hidden skeletons and shady bedfellows, even as they claimed the patriotic moral high ground. At the heart of this history is a lineage of men who never let truth get in the way of gaining, and wielding, power and cruelty. Julian uncovers a surprisingly direct lineage of dirty-tricks demagogue succession, from Woodrow Wilson to A. Mitchell Palmer, to J. Edgar Hoover, to Joe McCarthy, to Roy Cohn, to Roger Stone, to our current president. Editorial Note: The Paul Robeson clip that starts the episode is a re-enactment by James Earl Jones for the Zinn Education Project. It uses the transcript of Robeson’s 1956 appearance before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you now a member of the Communist Party?
0:04.8	Oh, please, please, please, please.
0:07.6	Please answer, will you, Mr. Robson?
0:09.0	What is the Communist Party?
0:11.8	What do you mean by that?
0:13.0	Are you now a member of the Communist Party?
0:15.0	Would you like to come to the ballot box when I vote and take out the ballot and see?
0:20.0	Mr. Chairman, I respectfully suggest the does it be directed to answer the question?
0:23.6	You are directed to answer the question.
0:25.6	In the first place, wherever I've been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against fascism were the communists.
0:33.6	I laid many wreaths upon the graves of communists.
0:38.3	That is not criminal.
0:41.3	Chief Justice Warren has been very clear that the Fifth Amendment does not have anything to do with the influence of criminality.
0:50.3	And I invoke the Fifth Amendment.
0:52.3	The witness talks very loud when he makes the speech, but when he invokes the Fifth Amendment, I can't hear him.
0:58.0	I have medals for diction. I can talk plenty loud.
1:02.2	Will you talk a little louder? I invoke the Fifth Amendment loudly.
1:06.5	That was the voice of lawyer, acclaimed singer and actor, former NFL football player,
1:13.7	and political activist Paul Robeson, testifying before the House on American Activities Committee in 1956.
1:22.4	Oh, hold on. I'm actually cutting in here because that seemed too good to be true.
1:27.7	In seeking to validate that clip, I found it was recorded by the actor James Earl Jones for the Zinn Education Project.
1:37.8	But speaking of Paul Robeson, he was just one of thousands subpoenaed to testify and to answer questions like,
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