Hey, Southern Fried listeners. This week we're sharing something special. It's an episode of an

incredible podcast I've been binging. It's called 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?

Season 2 of Alphabet Boys is out now. I'm going to play you an excerpt with host Trevor

Aronson. It's a real-life spy story, where nothing is at all what it seems.

In this episode, you'll hear real audio from an illegal arm still and meet our central character who,

despite being arrested claims he works for the CIA, but does he? It will make you wonder who are

the good guys and who are the bad guys. Okay, here comes the episode. Search Alphabet Boys wherever

you get your podcasts. Sometimes, when federal law enforcement agencies investigate crimes,

they unwittingly target the informants or undercover agents of other agencies. This season is one

of those stories. A simmering Alphabet soup with the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI all mixed up in the same case.

This may sound like small talk, but what you're hearing is in a legal arm's deal.

It's December 2014, and two Romanian men are in a hotel room in the country of Montenegro.

They're meeting with three Colombians. The Romanians are named Flavio Giorgescu and Christian Ventilla,

and they've arranged for the Colombians to buy millions of dollars in weapons and ammunition,

anti-aircraft cannons, rocket propelled grenades, and assault rifles.

Yeah, I, I show him the contract. I was pushing to sign the contract.

This is Flavio, and yeah, even illegal arm steals use contracts. Anyway, Flavio has got his

paperwork together, but he's stressed. Christian was trying to show him things on his laptop,

some specifications, some anything, but for me, it's just to put his signature and just leave

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