Episode Details

--{ "Ep. 6 Larry Learns About the CIA"}-- Larry from Indiana - Learned to Do Math Equations in the Cattle Business with His Uncle - The Government Introduced Disease to Cattle, Took Over the Cattle Business - Government Bought Tobacco from Small Farmers then Took Over Altogether - Larry Dropped Out of High School Two Weeks into the 9th Grade - Worked for Uncle's Construction Business - Real Estate Courses at College and University - Started a Real Estate Business - Bought a Newspaper - Church Ladies; Local Gossip and Local Sports Stats and Children's Grades All Published - Sent a Packet of Camera-Ready Propaganda-News from an Outfit Affiliated with Parade Magazine - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - D.A.R.E., Children Spying on Parents; Teaching Them to Be Informants - Carl Bernstein's Rolling Stone Article on the CIA and the Media - A Push by the CIA to Buy Up Newspapers from the Late 1980s to Early 1990s - Family Came from Appalachian Region, Eastern Kentucky - Generational Distrust of Government - Alan Watt and the Three Levels of Science - 17 Generations of Masons in the Family - Uncle's Masonic Connections - Movie, Brotherhood of the Bell - Poverty; Larry's Father Died When Larry was 10 and Then His Mother Lost Her Eyesight - Gold Standard - Late 1960s, Building Houses that Sold for $10,000 - Recession - The Cemetary Business - Dealing with Banks and Loans - The Value of Alan Watt's Work.