CIA Assassinations, Anticommunism & the Phoenix Program w/ Douglas Valentine

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Abby and Robbie Martin dive deep into the CIA assassination program during the Vietnam war known as the 'Phoenix Program' with writer and deep politics expert Douglas Valentine. After combing through the long and horrid history of CIA criminal activity and murder the discussion concludes with Douglas' take on the idea of 'Trump vs the Deep State' and how it is a false paradigm that distracts the American people away from the *real* deep state. Intro/Outro music: Shin Megami Tensei If... OST - Donyoku Kai Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to an exclusive bonus episode per month. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/dougvalentine77

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	The
0:07.0	Awe-Wea-haar Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Abby Martin.
0:33.6	And this is Robbie Martin. How's it going, everybody?
0:43.5	So today we're very, very excited to speak to investigative journalist Douglas Valentine,
0:50.7	CIA researcher and author of several great books, including the Phoenix program, and the CIA as organized crime, how illegal operations corrupt America and the world. Thank you so much for
0:56.9	coming on the program, Douglas. I'm honored to be on your program. I hope I could contribute
1:03.0	something. You absolutely will. Yeah, but I'm kind of surprised we haven't had you on earlier,
1:09.0	Douglas, because we've been following your work for a while.
1:12.8	And yeah, it's an honor to have you on the podcast.
1:16.6	I guess just to start, what piqued your interest initially in the CIA?
1:21.9	Like, was there a moment?
1:23.2	Where is there an event happening in the world?
1:26.3	What was that personal journey like for you?
1:29.2	And just describe that, how you initially started to get into researching and writing about the CIA.
1:35.8	Sure.
1:37.5	My father and I did not get along.
1:41.4	And it was not until I was 30 years old, 31 years old, that he called me up one day.
1:46.7	He had his second open heart surgery.
1:50.0	And he said that the doctors told him that if he wanted to survive, he had to tell what
1:56.0	happened to him in World War II.
1:58.7	And he called me up on the phone.
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