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The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In 1967, a German student named Benno Ohnesorg was shot and killed. Twenty years later, a disgraced politician named Uwe Barschel was found dead in a bathtub. They have at least one thing in common: their suspicious deaths may have been orchestrated by the German Secret Police, otherwise known as the Stasi.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Carter Roy and I host a podcast called Conspiracy Theories, a show about the greatest lies in history.
0:11.2	For over six years, we've been covering some of the world's biggest controversies,
0:15.9	mixing in tales of real proven conspiracies with ones that are just fun to think about.
0:23.0	Today I have an episode for you that deals in psychological warfare, political sabotage,
0:29.5	and manufactured chaos. It's about two suspicious deaths that occurred 20 years apart.
0:36.3	Despite the gap, they might have been the same culprit,
0:40.5	a secret police organization pulling strings from the shadows.
0:45.1	You can listen to it right here,
0:47.4	and if you like what you hear,
0:49.0	you can get new episodes of conspiracy theories every Wednesday,
0:53.1	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:55.5	And now our episode on the Stasi, East Germany's Secret Police.
1:05.5	Most secrets die with the people who keep them.
1:10.0	But there are some that manage to live on if you look in the right place.
1:17.2	Take the Stasi files.
1:19.5	They contain four decades of meticulous records, roughly 70 miles of paper in peach-colored
1:26.3	folders in 14 offices spread around Germany.
1:31.2	And that's just what didn't get destroyed when the Berlin Wall fell.
1:36.8	The Stasi, or East German secret police, are famous for their intense surveillance.
1:43.9	Their files document 40 years of espionage, the activities of a million spies, and millions
1:51.5	more targets at the very least. I say at the very least because, as of 2024, not all of the files have been recovered.
2:03.6	When East Germany dissolved in 1989, Stasi officers went on a paper shredding spree
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