Family Jewels Pt 1: Meddling Abroad (1975) w/ Rick Perlstein

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

History

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a new miniseries for you, looking back at the 1975 Church Committee hearings and report, which disclosed a wide array of shady behavior by the NSA, FBI, and CIA.

For the next four episodes, we’ll look at the findings and what the revelations meant for US government and media. We’ll look at Meddling Abroad, Meddling at Home, Meddling with Your Mind, and Meddling in the Press.

Our guest for this series is Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, Reaganland, The Invisible Bridge, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Abergan.
0:10.0	This is the first of a four-part special that we are doing.
0:13.4	We are originally just going to record one episode looking at some of the findings from the Church
0:17.9	Committee hearings in 1975 and then the report in 1976, which investigated and exposed in many ways lots of covert
0:26.4	activity by the NSA, FBI and CIA, shady activity abroad, spying at home, mind control, you know, good stuff like that.
0:34.8	And then we realize, wow, there is so much here.
0:37.6	Let's blow this out.
0:38.6	Let's have our own version of wall-to-wall hearings.
0:41.1	These were broadcast on TV after all, which we'll get into. So here we are a to all
0:43.0	which we'll get into.
0:44.0	So here we are a four-part series looking back at all we learned in
0:48.0	1975, which some people have called
0:50.0	the Year of Intelligence,
0:52.0	which I don't think anyone would say about
0:53.7	2022 or I don't know if you could say that about any year in American history but
0:58.2	nevertheless 1975 they called it the year of intelligence and certainly
1:01.4	intelligence revelations I will explain sort of the structure of year of intelligence, intelligence, revelations.
1:03.0	I will explain sort of the structure of this series in a moment,
1:07.0	but here to help guide our church committee mini series are.
1:10.0	As always, Nicole Hammer of Columbia
1:12.0	and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
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