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Hey last archive listeners, we have something special for you today.

As you know, we love uncovering forgotten stories from history, and we wanted to share

another podcast that has that same passion.

The show is called Click Here, and it tells stories about the world of cyber and intelligence.

Former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston is the host.

The episode you're about to hear is about a group of American musicians who smuggled

messages in and out of the former Soviet Union in an ingenious way by burying code in their

music.

Here comes the episode.

You can find Click Here, wherever you get your podcasts.

This 1985 in Soviet Russia, Mikhail Gorbachev is the head of the Communist Party, and his

great opening to the West, Glausnoz in Parastrica, is still just a glimmer in his eye.

1985 was still the time of that old Soviet Union, the one with defections and the KGB, and

into this world stepped the most unlikely of people, four members of a chlasmer ensemble

from Boston.

Klasmer is a kind of Jewish folk music.

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