The Ripple Effect Podcast #154 (Jefferson Morley | The History of The CIA)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

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4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Jefferson Morley is a journalist and editor who has worked in Washington journalism for over thirty years, fifteen of which were spent as an editor and reporter at the Washington Post. The author of Our Man in Mexico, a biography of the CIA's Mexico City station chief Winston Scott, Morley has written about intelligence, military, and political subjects for Salon, the Atlantic, and The Intercept, among other publications. He is also the editor of JFKfacts.org.

Jeff joins the show to talk about the history of the CIA and also his new book, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple fact
0:25.6	The ripple fact I'm a host, Ricardo Verandez.
1:14.1	And today we got Jefferson Morley. He's an author, writer, journalist, investigating, investigative journalists.
1:23.6	Because to write these books, you definitely have to do some investigating into these topics.
1:28.1	And he's on to talk about the history of the CIA.
1:30.9	He's written two books on it, one called The Ghost, The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster, James Jesus, Engleton.
1:38.9	And then he also wrote a book prior to that called Our Man in Mexico, Winston Scott, and the Hidden History of the CIA.
1:47.0	So he writes a lot about the history of the CIA and these very interesting characters
1:52.1	that most of us don't know too much about. And I will admit, before I ran into his book,
1:59.5	The Ghost.
2:03.7	I really didn't know who James Jesus Angleton was.
2:04.5	I knew the name.
2:05.3	It sounded familiar.
2:10.8	I'm sure I saw it written somewhere and it didn't seem completely unfamiliar.
2:20.4	But I didn't realize how influential this person was in foreign policy and coups and so much that was going on in the world.
2:24.9	And so many of the historical events that happened while he was working for the CIA and basically second in charge of the CIA behind Alan Dulles.
2:29.8	So it was a really interesting conversation.
2:33.8	Jeff and I had a good conversation about his books, about some current events, but mostly
2:39.9	the history of CIA and everything that has to do with the CIA.
2:42.9	So very interesting topic and a fun conversation to have.
2:46.5	So hopefully you guys enjoy it.
2:48.1	I'll put links in the show notes to his website.
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