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The Secret Life of Tom Slick: The CIA and the Search for the Yeti | MHP 04.11.23.

The Micah Hanks Program

Micah Hanks

Society & Culture, Science

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In 1957, a wealthy Texas philanthropist and oil tycoon named Tom Slick Jr. was making headlines across the nation. Slick, who had already poured much of his family fortune into the establishment of foundations aimed at exploring various areas of the sciences, was now getting international attention for his plans to launch an expedition in search of a modern mystery: the famous Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.

However, questions have lingered over whether there could have been more to the purpose of Slick's Yeti-hunting adventure than the public had known... and this week on The Micah Hanks Program, we look at Slick's possible connections to the U.S. intelligence community, and whether the CIA had been involved in espionage with help from the man who, at the time, had become America's most-famous monster hunter.

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0:00.0

News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and

0:08.6

the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges

0:14.3

of human understanding.

0:16.1

The future is now, this is Micahanks.

0:23.0

From the high mountains of Appalachia in a bunker below ground, welcome one at all.

0:27.8

It is the Micahanks program, glad once again, to be getting behind the microphone and getting

0:33.3

into gear as we go and pursuit of the anomalous and enigmatic, like we do every week, listen

0:40.3

on to band via podcasting apps all throughout space and time, and of course via our station

0:45.4

affiliates.

0:46.4

Over there at the UNEX radio network, a belated happy Easter to you all, or however, you

0:53.8

may celebrate.

0:54.8

Hope everyone is doing great, as always, lots happening right now.

0:59.9

Leaked documents, UAP patterns, AI being used in an attempt to unravel a crypto-zoological

1:08.0

mystery.

1:09.0

Yeah, and on that subject, taking a look back at the secrecy and the efforts by the CIA

1:20.2

to obtain information about America's enemies, were there ever efforts to try and discover

1:28.4

unrecognized animal species used as a cover in the CIA's attempts at espionage?

1:37.4

That is one question that we'll be looking at among others in our exploration of the

1:42.3

life of one of the most interesting Americans in my view, and that Mr. Tom Slick Jr.

1:50.6

Somebody who is behind the foundation of a number of still-existent scientific organizations

1:56.2

in the United States, some which have looked at everything from biosciences and medicine

2:02.1

to yes, the hunt for the abominable snowman.

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