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Secret Dealer Man Part 3 of the Crack Epidemic
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Show Notes Episode 493: Secret Dealer Man
Part 3 of the Crack Epidemic
This week Host Dave Bledsoe tried to make a bartender believe he was an undercover agent for the state liquor authority and drinking for free would help their case. (It would have worked if his “badge” didn’t read Female Body Inspector) On the show this week we FINALLY conclude the Crack Epidemic and Coke Month with the story of how maybe the CIA did the crack epidemic.
Along the way we discover that Dave will do anything for love, but he won’t do that. (That being to help a stripper smuggle drugs) Then we dive into the not so secret history of the Central Intelligence Agency. Then we meet a CIA asset and Panamanian dictator who trafficked so much coke the US Army got involved. (In taking him out, not buying his coke, we think.) Then we talk about a reporter, a hot story that was almost too good to be true. (Turned out it actually was too good to be true.)
Our Sponsor this week is the Central Intelligence Agency, less evil than you think, more evil than you would like. We open the show with 60 Minutes and close with Kirby who is living a life of danger.
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Citations Needed:
History of CIA
https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/
Guns, Drugs and the CIA
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/archive/gunsdrugscia.html
Panama's Noriega: CIA spy turned drug-running dictator
Helping the crack flow
Wikipedia Kerr