As the Cold War turns Central America into a battlefield of spies and sabotage, a Panamanian soldier trained by Mossad, the DEA, and Castro’s Cuba becomes the right-hand man to dictator Manuel Noriega and must survive the covert war launched by the very intelligence networks that created him.

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OUTLINE

00:00 - Panama during the Cold War

05:31 - Fidel Castro's personal Mossad agent

12:20 - how Manuel Noriega became a CIA asset

19:45 - CIA helped fund Fidel Castro

28:31 - Manuel Noriega & the drug trade

38:22 - Manuel Noriega & George HW Bush's relationship

41:24 - Venesuela

50:51 - China is taking over Latin America

55:55 - Graham Linehan, free speech & the Twitter files

01:05:52 - people live in different realities

01:09:09 - Tucker Carlson's new documentary

01:18:24 - Intelligence agencies are more evil than you think

01:25:24 - Manuel Noriega's best-kept secret

01:33:17 - life in Cuba & "dodgy boxes"

01:40:29 - ex-CIA agent on Charlie Kirk shooting

02:02:15 - Gary Webb & CIA assassinations

02:07:54 - Money laundering in Panama

02:16:27 - DEA's letter to Manuel Noriega

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