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The CIA’s Bad Ideas

The CIA’s Bad Ideas

FromThe Gist


The CIA’s Bad Ideas

FromThe Gist

ratings:
Length:
31 minutes
Released:
Jul 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

On The Gist, the metal straw incident. In the interview, Vince Houghton is a historian and the curator of the International Spy Museum and he’s here to talk about his new book Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. Why did we want to drop goat poop on Germans? Can a cat be trained for espionage? In the Spiel, the citizenship question.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Jul 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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