Introducing: Alphabet Boys: Season 2, Up in Arms

Alphabet Boys

iHeartPodcasts and Western Sound

Society & Culture, Government, True Crime

4.6 • 968 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Alphabet Boys, Season 2 is “Up In Arms.” An international weapons deal to arm rebels in Colombia tangles up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI in the same case. But who’s the good guy? And who’s the bad guy? This spy story is not at all what it seems.

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0:00.0	Good afternoon. How can I help you?
0:07.0	Hi, my name is Flavio and I was born in Romania, but right now I'm a U.S. citizen.
0:16.0	It's April 2012, and a Romanian man makes a call to the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
0:24.4	He says the matter at hand is urgent and he needs to meet in person with a CIA agent in Europe.
0:31.6	And soon... I need to talk with someone personally over here.
0:36.0	The official on the phone sounds skeptical.
0:39.0	Okay, then you need to go to the embassy then,
0:42.0	because if you don't want to tell me over the phone I'm not going to send
0:44.4	somebody out to meet you okay if you only need if you need to talk in person only then you need to go to the
0:49.5	embassy the caller says this is very serious and sensitive. He can't just walk into some
0:57.4	embassy and start talking. He's been approached by someone who needs to buy
1:02.0	weapons, some serious weapons that will target Americans.
1:07.0	These guys are dangerous.
1:10.0	So you do personal security all over the world, you're connected to all these different people,
1:15.0	and you had somebody call you and say, can you get grenades and guns for this guy in Columbia?
1:21.0	Not to specify grenades, a lot of ammunition.
1:25.0	Emonitions, AK-47.
1:27.2	You think a call like this would set off alarms.
1:30.0	Wouldn't the CIA love to catch some arms-dealing bad guys?
1:35.2	But that is not what happens.
1:39.9	I'm Trevor Aronson from Western Sound and I Heart Podcast. This is a new season of
1:45.3	Alphabet Boys. This time it's an alphabet soup with the CIA, the DEA, and the
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