This episode surveys thirty years of CIA covert operations—from the recruitment of Nazi war criminals in Operation Paperclip, through the infiltration of American media in Operation Mockingbird, to the overthrow of governments in Cuba, the Congo, Indonesia, and Chile. We examine the documented conflict between President Kennedy and the CIA, the mass casualties in Indonesia’s 1965-66 massacres, and the Church Committee’s brief moment of accountability. Throughout, we trace how the black budget funded operations that American taxpayers knew nothing about

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