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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Do intelligence agencies run cults?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Sure, cults are weird. The doomsday prophecies, claims of superpowers and tendency toward brainwashing are all strange, but what if the situation got even weirder? What if intelligence agencies were secretly involved with everything from the Manson family.

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0:00.0

Daniel Miller is a millennial con artist.

0:03.0

I'm a social media influencer.

0:05.0

Busted while recovering from Brazilian butt lift surgery.

0:08.0

She was yelling at the police for like getting her butt tissue out of joy when they were

0:12.0

paying nothing.

0:13.0

She's got hundreds of victims.

0:15.0

To me, that's not a con artist that just is a straight-up predator, and she just keeps

0:20.0

getting away with it.

0:21.0

This person is a danger.

0:22.0

Listen to Queen of the Con, season three on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

0:28.0

your podcasts.

0:29.0

My father was a flock star.

0:32.0

It was like Biddlemania.

0:33.0

But not here in America.

0:35.0

Dean Reed criticized the American government from behind the Iron Curtain.

0:38.0

He had lots of enemies.

0:39.0

He wanted to come back home, and then the unthinkable happened.

0:45.0

Dean Reed died.

0:46.0

Come with me, Ramona Reed, to learn more about the extraordinary life and mysterious death

0:51.0

of revolutionary.

0:52.0

Listen to Red Elvis, a Curiosity Audio Network podcast on the I Heart Radio app, Apple

0:57.6

Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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