Wind of Change

3. America’s Secret Weapon

05.25.2020 - By Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / SpotifyPlay

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LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1961: One of America’s most beloved singers died without ever knowing that during the Cold War she had been used by the CIA. And a 40-year-old mystery resurfaces: when the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band was picked to tour behind the Iron Curtain in 1977, was an undercover CIA officer planted among their entourage?

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