We have reached the midpoint of our CASINO series, friends and neighbours. Tonight we look at some other aspects of George HW Bush's time as CIA Director, the moment when he became the Godfather of the Amerikan Deep State. We look at the privatization of US intelligence, cocaine trafficking, Adnan Khashoggi and the development of Safari Club, and setting up the dark money networks with BCCI. This one has a little bit of everything, folks.

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Our CASINO miniseries continues. We chase the money and Cuban exiles across 30 years of intrigue and corruption, looking at Castle Bank & Trust, World Finance Corporation, Disney, money laundering, Operation Condor, the mafia, and the CIA. 1976 and the rise of George Bush to the summit of the American deep state looms; the world will never be the same after this.

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The CIA is under new management. As the skim operation and the links between the mob and the Agency are exposed, a panicked attempt at a cover-up ensues. A neon paradise disappears in a tsunami of gore and litigation, but not everyone falls. We end with a look at the claim that the FBI "cleaned up" Vegas, and discuss the mob frontman who briefly became the most powerful man in the world. He might be back in the White House in a couple of years.

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A new miniseries about the deep politics of casinos. Tonight we introduce the story of the near-destruction of the Syndicate, with a look at the story of Lefty Rosenthal, Tony Spilotro, and the secretive networks of business, intelligence and crime surrounding the massive skim operation they oversaw in Las Vegas back in the 70s.

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A brief interruption to the last run of American history shows, in which we look at the City of London, the British Establishment, Ukraine, Russia, dark money and media spin.

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Tonight we examine the career of OSS/CIA agent and financier Nicholas Deak, and the strange, sad life of a mentally ill woman called Lois Lang. This one takes us on an odyssey through decades of money laundering, assassination, banking and, bizarrely, MKUltra experiments.

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We wrap up our Manson mini-series and the Season of the Witch project entirely by musing on the nature of conspiracy, navigating a head maze of folk myth and covert ops, and why Cielo Drive still matters.

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In the first episode of BOOKS OF WAR, we trace the origin of the Sicilian Mafia and explore how it drew on 2000 years of history to fashion grandiose creation myths that obscured the grim reality of what it was and how it came into existence. 

We kick off 2022 with a deep dive into the Process Church of the Final Judgement as part of our lateral look at the Manson family. A new religious movement and cult that was influenced by Carl Jung as much as Scientology, Process has been the subject of wild and feverish speculation for years. Art school try-hards or the guiding hand behind a secret "Satanic terror network"? Neonazi occultists or a pyramid scheme aimed at middle class dropouts? Our goal in this episode is to chart a path through the fog of bullshit and paranoia, and find something approximating the Truth.

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Hollywood Ghost Stories continues as we get into the mind-warping, brain melting, sanity blasting story of Donald Defreeze and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. From bank jobs to CHAOS agents, the Phoenix Program to revolutionary fervor, MKUltra to the LAPD, this story has it all, and is easily one of the most incredible we've ever discussed.

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