S18 Ep88: Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War, and International Crime w/Miles Johnson
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 175 minutes
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Summary
Jack Kelly, a veteran US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, tasked with following a trail of dirty money across continents from a top-secret investigative unit based in Virginia.
Salvatore Pititto is an ambitious Mafia capo working on a vast cocaine shipment who becomes unexpectedly pulled into an arms-smuggling conspiracy.
Mustafa Badreddine is a ghost-like master terrorist wanted by governments across the world who has been secretly dispatched to Syria for his final mission.
Each man, born in radically different circumstances in the 1960s, is in his own way grappling with the powerful and unstoppable forces that shape the world around us; forces which topple governments, send refugees fleeing across borders, and put guns in the hands of mercenaries and militias. Each has devoted his whole life to an institution-the DEA, the Mafia and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah-and each will eventually be destroyed or betrayed by the thing they believe in the most. On Today's show our guest, Miles Johnson, gives the details on these three men, their stories, and how they intersect and how they would change the face of how crime does business.
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Get the book, "Chasing Shadows...", Here: https://bit.ly/470gP4H (book will be published 8/3/23)
Follow Miles Johnson on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/MilesMJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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| 0:51.6 | Welcome in to the Best in True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:53.4 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:55.8 | Have a very interesting show for you today, folks. |
| 0:59.2 | It's very rare that we go international, but we're going to go international today, |
| 1:02.5 | and we're going to talk about a situation that happened throughout the 80s, |
| 1:07.1 | into the 90s, and even into the 2000s, into the early 2000s. |
| 1:13.6 | A situation that a lot of you may be familiar with within the Middle East, |
| 1:19.5 | and even carries over here to the United States and to our own DEA department. |
| 1:24.0 | Our guest today is Miles Johnson. |
| 1:26.2 | He has a book out there that I read over the weekend and had an interesting time, |
| 1:32.9 | but a very, very good book, an intriguing book. |
| 1:37.1 | It carries all the way from the Middle East to Italy and man, we just have to get into it with |
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