Introducing: Alphabet Boys

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re sharing an episode of Alphabet Boys. Alphabet Boys takes you inside secret investigations that the FBI, DEA, CIA, and other alphabet agencies never wanted the public to know about. These cases are both dangerous and absurd … and they raise a troubling question: Are America’s top cops catching criminals -- or creating them? In this episode, you’ll hear real audio from an illegal arms deal and meet our central character, who, despite being arrested, claims he works for the CIA. But does he? Listen to Alphabet Boys at https://link.chtbl.com/ispyalphabetboys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, I spy listeners.
0:04.7	We're on a long hiatus working on a new season.
0:07.5	Me time we occasionally share episodes from other shows we like.
0:11.1	This one is called Alphabet Boys.
0:13.4	It's worth a listen.
0:15.1	The show takes you inside secret investigations of both intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
0:21.5	The FBI, DEA, the CIA, if you listen to I spy, you know these agencies.
0:27.4	You also know their cases are sometimes dangerous, sometimes absurd.
0:31.5	Often they raise troubling questions, including in this case, are America's top cops catching
0:36.4	criminals or creating them?
0:38.4	I'm going to play you an excerpt with host Trevor Aronson.
0:41.8	It's this real-life spy story where, as usual, nothing is at all what it seems.
0:47.5	There's some real audio here from an illegal arms deal.
0:50.3	That's the part that caught my ear.
0:52.2	There's also a character who gets arrested even though he claims to work for the CIA,
0:56.5	does he?
0:57.5	That's part of the mystery.
0:59.1	The show is called Alphabet Boys Season 2.
1:02.6	You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.
1:12.7	Sometimes when federal law enforcement agencies investigate crimes, they unwittingly target
1:18.9	the informants or undercover agents of other agencies.
1:23.6	The CIA season is one of those stories, a simmering alphabet soup with the DEA, the CIA, and
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