The American Government Can Heist Too (#126)
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
During the 1970s Douglas Groat worked at the super secret heist department of the CIA called "The Shop." That's right, the CIA has a special elite team of heisters whose primary goal is to break into foreign embassies to steal secret documents and code books. Douglas Groat was one of their best, until he decided to stand up against the way the division operated. It didn't turn out so well so him. HEEEIST!
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, we covered the heisting nation of North Korea. |
| 0:04.8 | And this week, we cover America. |
| 0:07.8 | Well, sort of. |
| 0:10.9 | Heist. |
| 0:14.4 | Heist podcast. |
| 0:17.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to episode 126 of the Heist podcast, a true crime podcast without any of the murder, no murder today. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Simon. |
| 0:29.6 | And I'm Matt. |
| 0:30.3 | And welcome to the show. |
| 0:32.1 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:33.3 | We hope you're doing all right. |
| 0:34.9 | Matt, how are you doing? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm doing good. |
| 0:36.8 | It's a sunny Friday. Feeling good about that. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.9 | Really appreciate all the love we've got it for our North Korea heist, two-parter. Yeah. People sending in some good words. People liked it, which is awesome. I'm really stoked on that. So I have a question for you. Go for it. How do you feel about the fact that you and I probably can't travel to North Korea anymore? |
| 0:57.0 | I know. I was really a little bit. I was excited. I was getting out my lonely planet guide to Pyongyang. I was really starting to circle some of the places that I want to go. want to go. But now I have a feeling if we showed up, they'd shoot a dart in our necks and we'd be brought to probably an internment camp where we'd never see anyone we loved ever again. Most definitely. I mean, I was really, the same as you. I was reading the thrill list of like the top 10 best bars and barbecue joints in Poyang. Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:29.0 | I was just getting ready to go. |
| 1:29.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.8 | This place has the best crantini in Pyongyang. |
| 1:42.0 | But yeah, I feel like since our coverage, I don't think we'll ever allow to go there. |
| 2:00.9 | Yeah, I think we're toast. I mean, I'm just hoping we don't get hacked. Because I think there's definitely something in emails and text messages that could, I just don't want the world to see. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, no matter who you are, they'll be able to pull something out of there, you know? Or they'll just make it. They'll just make it up. |
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