The Ripple Effect Podcast #190 (Douglas Valentine | Social Control & The CIA)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

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4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Douglas Valentine is an author, journalist & historian. Douglas has lectured and appeared on TV and radio talk shows, testified as an expert witness, served as documentary film consultant and worked as a private investigator. His previous books include The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World, The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam, and The Strength of the Pack: The Personalities, Politics and Espionage Intrigues that Shaped the DEA. He is also the editor of the poetry anthology With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple fact.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm I'm I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm your host, Ricardo Vrandis, also known as Ricky Vrandas, and... What's up? Another episode of RupaFlect podcast.
1:11.3	I'm your host, Ricardo Vrandis, also known as Ricky Vrandis.
1:14.3	And I know I'm always doing the same intro, but it's just so much fun to roll you are.
1:18.5	Today we have a great guest for you.
1:21.5	Douglas Valentine researcher, historian.
1:25.0	He's been in documentaries.
1:26.7	He's been interviewed on many radio stations. He's one
1:31.1	the leading researchers in the CIA, the Phoenix program, which is America's use in terror in
1:39.1	Vietnam. He's written books from, I think some of his first books were from the 80s and some of his
1:46.4	most recent books, I think his most recent one, the CIA as organized crime is from 2016.
1:52.0	And he lives not that far from me. I live in Ludlow, Massachusetts. He's from Longmeadow,
1:55.8	Massachusetts, which it's about 15, 20 minutes away, not far at all. And hopefully one day we'll be able to get together and do a live podcast.
2:03.5	At the moment, we did a Skype in podcast, which is nice because you'll be able to see
2:09.9	the video version of this show.
2:12.5	And if you go on our YouTube channel, RV Theory 6 or just look up the RIP effect podcast,
2:16.7	you can visually see Douglas and I have the conversation.
2:19.8	But he's a great historian researcher.
2:22.7	He's recently been on the tinfoil hat podcast, I think, to talk about his most recent book,
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