The Hunt For "Dick"

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

1962: A Soviet spy walks into the Manhattan offices of the FBI to announce his intentions to defect to the United States and with him he has brought a major bit of intel: He knows the FBI has a mole within it's ranks, he doesn't who it is, but he does know his name: DICK. The hunt for "Unsub Dick" lasted for at least 15 years and is still argued over today. We investigate.

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0:00.0	featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.
0:09.9	This is The Shocking Details.
0:13.6	Hey there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I am Joe, one of your hosts, as always joined by Vincent Caldoni.
0:23.5	And we've got another cool story for you this week. Actually, I've been looking through the
0:28.3	recent episodes, and I realized that we have not recently done a good Cold War espionage story.
0:35.5	I know, I know if I'm just a lapse on my part.
0:38.6	So I rooted around in our files, which are voluminous, as you know.
0:42.3	And I found this story.
0:44.0	This story is about looking for dick.
0:47.4	Yeah.
0:48.7	That's right.
0:49.8	If you got kids in the room, cover their ears.
0:52.1	If you're a kid.
0:53.3	If you are a kid, cover your ears now.
0:56.4	Don't uncover them until it's time for a commercial, okay?
1:00.2	Listen carefully.
1:01.5	All right.
1:01.9	Okay.
1:02.4	Actually, okay, you can uncover your ears.
1:04.1	I'm kidding.
1:05.4	But not entirely, though.
1:07.3	The FBI did at one time start a hunt for an unknown subject, an unsub, whose name was
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