Free Range American: Ep 123 Doug Patteson - Former CIA Spy

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Evan Hafer welcomes Doug Patteson to the BRCC offices in Salt Lake City for this episode of Free Range American. As a former spy, or “case officer,” Doug shares his experiences and opinions with Evan as the two trade stories about the different roles they played in the CIA and their theories about various U.S. conspiracies.

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0:00.0	I love this thing because it's a conversation started.
0:24.1	So what were you saying?
0:25.8	I was saying that some of the guys that carried this in World War II would machine down a
0:32.2	grind down one side of the guard here so that they could carry it flatter against their
0:36.4	body.
0:37.4	So when stick out in the sheath, when they were doing things like jumping and stuff.
0:40.8	So when you find those with it ground down, it's pretty awesome.
0:44.1	That's super cool.
0:45.1	They're hard to find though.
0:46.3	See, they are really hard to find.
0:47.8	Yeah, they're pricey.
0:49.3	They're pricey.
0:50.3	Yeah.
0:51.3	I love this in the 1917 version, which is got a triangular shaped blade.
0:55.6	I haven't seen that.
0:56.9	Yeah, so the blade itself isn't a flat blade like this.
0:59.8	It's triangular and it doesn't have individual hole slots for your fingers.
1:04.0	It's got a single guard with knuckles built on the outside of it.
1:07.6	Huh, look at that.
1:08.6	See, you get to bring a CIA guy in to tell you the history of trench knives because that's
1:13.2	because that's what we do here.
1:16.2	Yeah, we bring smart guys in to tell us how to do shit.
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