The Raymond Allen Davis Incident

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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It's an open secret that not everything is as it seems in the world of diplomacy -- a great many individuals operate with some degree of subterfuge and invisibility. So what happens when things go wrong, and these often disturbing, unseen things become visible? Tonight's story takes us to Lahore, Pakistan: on January 27, 2011, CIA contractor Raymond Allen Davis found himself in a brutal firefight in traffic. What follows becomes an international scandal reaching all the way to the President of the United States. Join Ben, Matt and Noel to learn more.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.5	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.0	A production of IHeartRadie. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:27.6	My name is Matt.
0:28.5	My name is Noel.
0:30.2	They call me Ben.
0:31.6	We're joined with our guest, super producer.
0:34.7	None other than Nome's Griffin.
0:36.8	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:40.4	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know, and we hope this exploration finds you well.
0:48.8	If you are in your own global neck of the woods, or if you consider yourself a tourist abroad.
0:58.3	We've got a real one for you tonight, folks.
1:01.2	A real weird one, at least.
1:03.6	It's a real one for the real ones out there.
1:05.6	There we go.
1:06.7	Yeah, that's nice.
1:08.1	Noel, you're a bit of a tourist right now.
1:11.4	How dare you?
1:14.8	Yeah, I suppose you can say that.
1:16.3	Yeah, I am on a trip to New York City, but I don't hang here like a tourist, or I like to think so at least.
1:21.6	Yeah, you're a local now at this point, right?
1:24.0	You know where to go, how to step.
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