Now try not to be surprised, but what if I told you that there was a singular thing

that sparked the interconnection of mobsters and spies, the darkest elements of the world

beneath us, and that this singular thing is the most precious and sacred of all things

to occur in the human condition?

What if I then said that this sacred thing that sparked the darkest thing would have never

happened without a wild conspiracy theory about Shakespeare, which led to the creation

of cryptanalysis, the art and science of code breaking without having a key, a science

which was spawned by a technique that eventually enabled both the gameplay architecture and

algorithmic spread of today's great conspiracy theory, QAnon.

I mean, you might think me a conspiracist, I suppose.

Or you could just listen to this story about that singular, sacred thing.

True love.

In our first episode, where we talked about what we're doing here, exposing a previously

unseen world beneath our own, we're intelligence operations and organized crime intersect.

I asked the questions that launched this series.

Most of them were specific to two assassinations that happened in the same city seven months

apart.

Big Paul Castelano, boss of the Gambino crime family, and FC Agron, KGB agent, and little

godfather, other Russian mafia, were these two hits connected?

If so, how?

If how?

Why?

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