What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Should I Read This Summer? “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature” by Charlie English
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:29.8 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:31.9 | And I'm Mark Tiesen. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:37.1 | Mark, what are you reading? Well, we're doing our regular summer series. What the hell is going on? Mark, what are you reading? Well, we're doing our |
| 0:40.0 | regular summer series. What the hell should I read this summer? And the book we're talking about today |
| 0:45.0 | is the CIA Book Club by Charlie English. And in it, he documents this really innovative |
| 0:52.7 | program that the CIA carried out during the Cold War. |
| 0:57.1 | I mean, the CIA is famous for toppling regimes, carrying out assassinations, arming rebel groups, and all the rest of it. |
| 1:05.0 | But in Eastern Europe, and specifically this book focuses on Poland, which was the largest non-Soviet Eastern European country. |
| 1:13.0 | They spent as much time, they didn't smuggle in weapons. |
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