Hi guys, thanks for tuning into Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb. If you are familiar

with my work on the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, you are likely aware of at least aspects of the

sorted history regarding the involvement of intelligence agencies, including the CIA, and child

trafficking and sexual abuse. However, in my currently published work on Epstein, I wasn't able to cover

every historical instance

of the intelligence community's involvement in these dark activities, having only touched on

well-documented abuse cases like the Franklin scandal, and some lesser-known incidents that directly

related to the same network of individuals or groups that Epstein later inhabited.

But there is another related scandal that definitely deserves our attention,

as it involves ties of the CIA to a nefarious cult that sexually and richly abused young children,

a horrific group that has historically gotten little media attention,

with reporting on the incident in recent decades being almost entirely restricted to independent media.

This cult, known as the Finders, briefly entered the national spotlight in the late 1980s and

early 1990s, around the same time the Franklin scandal and other intelligence agency-linked

scandals of a different nature, such as Iran-Contra and the Promise Software scandal,

were in the process of being, quote-unquote, investigated and covered up by U.S. government agencies.

Years after the story was memory-holded by the media and the finder's ties to the government

had been covered up by federal investigators, documents were released a few years ago in 2019

that have allowed some

journalists to piece together more of the story than ever before. One of them, Elizabeth Foss,

joins me today to discuss her recent series at McPress News on the finders and their intelligence ties.

Elizabeth is an independent journalist who has done considerable work on whistleblowers,

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