November 09, 2022

The Starfighter & the Condor (WIW 7)

41 minutes

EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)

The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.

Because the world is weird.

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SECTIONS

02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...

03:32 - Bug, fixes & features

07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany

08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama

14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out

17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane

21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election

23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions

25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA

29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever

32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig

37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor

38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts

Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO

Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"

"Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper

Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine

The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society

The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea

Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times

Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don

Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo

Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka

James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com

Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree

The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read

The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime

200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America

Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking

European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’

The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO

Martín Almada on Right Livelihood

How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC

Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams

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