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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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How far would you go in pursuit of a Greater Good? How much evil would you permit -- how many crimes would you commit -- if you believed the result was beneficial to the world overall? These are the kind of questions the US government wrestled with at the height of the Cold War, when they considered launching a number of false flag and terror campaigns to shore up support for a hot war with Cuba. Join Ben, Matt and Noel to learn more.
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0:00.0 | From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies history is riddled with unexplained events. |
0:07.0 | You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know. |
0:12.0 | A production of I-Heart Radio. |
0:17.0 | Hello, welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel. They call me |
0:28.6 | Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control decade most importantly you are you you are here that |
0:36.8 | makes this the stuff they don't want you to know an episode long time and coming gentlemen this is a bit stuff they don't want you |
0:45.7 | know and a bit ridiculous history I guess because any student of war can tell you a lot |
0:52.3 | of stuff doesn't make it off the drawing board. Remember all those |
0:56.6 | episodes we did on both shows about like strapping bombs to bats and using cats as spies. |
1:04.0 | Sure. |
1:05.0 | I mean, no matter what weird stuff do you throw at them, Ben, |
1:09.0 | war. |
1:10.0 | War never changes. |
1:12.0 | Right. And that one time the U. Right. |
1:13.0 | And that one time the U.S. absolutely in seriousness said, |
1:19.0 | hey, I don't know, what if there's like a bomb that can make people gay and they put money into |
1:26.3 | this ideation until eventually a voice of reason said that's kind of wild I don't think it'll work. |
1:33.0 | Can you imagine if it did how much happier everyone would be? |
1:36.0 | How much less conflict there would be? I mean Jesus, what a what an idea? |
1:40.0 | We see all these wild ideas, right? The majority of them, the rate of attrition is very high. They don't make it off the drawing board. And so we can look back at a lot of those things. And the benefit of retrospect we can call them hilarious, |
1:55.3 | but when they do make it into real world deployment, the results can be terrifying and please |
2:02.1 | fellow conspiracy realist keep that last |
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