The Politics of Contraband: Pablo Escobar and the CIA | 87
Hysteria 51
ForthHand Media
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Pablo Escobar, known as the King of Cocaine, was a Colombian drug kingpin, a smuggler, killer, cartel leader, and CIA Operative. Wait, what was that last one? CIA Operative - according to many involved - the man once responsible for 80% of all cocaine consumed in the U.S. in a given year, was being protected by and even funded by the CIA. This week we hear from Sam Kulper who had a chance to sit down with Escobar's brother Roberto, while in Columbia. How involved was the US Government? Was the king of all Narcos just a side effect of the Iran/Contra Affair? Could Sam stop staring at Roberto's missing eye? We ask the tough questions this week. Plus, Conspiracy Bot gets a jet-pack (not really), Brent decides he missed his calling to be a Narco (not really) , and Columbia has a Hippo problem (really). All of that and more on the podcast that’s never been involved in the drug trade, but if we were we’d want it to be with Ray Liotta - Hysteria 51.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is the fourth hand protection. |
| 0:02.8 | Hey former Adise yuppie, remember the mounds of cocaine you snorted. |
| 0:06.4 | Well, that all came from somewhere, and that somewhere was Columbia. |
| 0:10.4 | A little family called the Escobar's were drug kingpins, but was their silent partner |
| 0:15.2 | the CIA? |
| 0:16.7 | We tackle that question with the help of Sam Culper, our man on the inside who sat down with |
| 0:20.6 | Roberto Escobar himself to hear the story first hand, so get ready for your |
| 0:24.6 | bump of knowledge in the politics of contraband on hysteria 51. |
| 0:28.0 | They say, I'm disturbed. |
| 0:30.0 | From city to city an incredible hysterical panic spread. |
| 0:32.8 | I think we're getting into a weird area here. |
| 0:35.8 | Who you simply schools are not crazy. |
| 0:38.8 | This hysteria. |
| 0:39.8 | You can't handle the truth. |
| 0:43.0 | This brain is gone. |
| 0:45.0 | This is Hysteria 51. |
| 0:47.0 | Here here. |
| 0:49.0 | The truth is out there. |
| 0:51.0 | It's alive. |
| 0:52.0 | But you won't find it here. |
| 0:54.0 | They're coming for you. |
| 0:55.0 | Look, there comes one of them now. |
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