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Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Two very different tales about making stuff up about the CIA. Your host shares the story of Sylvia Press, who in the 1950s, wrote a revenge novel after she was fired during the McCarthy purges. And author Jefferson Morley tells us about the time CIA director Richard Helms tried to create an American James Bond with the help of future Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt.

Get Jefferson Morley’s amazing new book: Scorpion's Dance. Sylvia Press’s novel The Care of Devils is harder to find.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
0:05.1	At Radio Topia, we now have a select group of amazing supporters that help us make all our shows possible.
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0:22.7	Thanks.
0:23.6	Hello, I'm super excited to tell you about a new show coming to Radio Topia.
0:28.8	It's called Weight For It.
0:30.9	Not weight, like, weight for me, or weight, weight, don't tell me,
0:35.2	but weight, that thing that many in our society are concerned with gaining or losing.
0:40.9	Weight For It is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking about their weight.
0:46.8	Creator and host Ronald Young Jr.
0:49.8	is seeking to have the conversations about our bodies that are often understated and sometimes flat out unsaid.
0:57.1	He kicks the show off with his own story, wondering if he can ever truly be desirable as a fat man.
1:03.5	He then brings us stories of all types of folks, fat and straight-sized,
1:08.4	who can't seem to keep weight off their minds.
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1:19.0	The first published fictional account of the inner workings of the CIA was a revenge novel.
1:31.6	In the mid-1950s, CIA analyst Sylvia Press was subjected to a Kafka-esque
1:37.7	seven-week security interrogation and then fired.
1:41.8	She then wrote a Ramona clay called The Care of Devils,
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