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Episodes
- The Night the Machines Reported a Nuclear WarWhat if the end of the world began with five red dots on a screen, and the person watching them said, “No. That makes no sense”? Today is November 11, 2026. Forty-three years…
- The Cat That Went to Work for the CIAI have a question. Who looked at a cat and thought, yes, excellent intelligence asset? Not a pigeon. Not a dog. A cat. An animal that will ignore you for six hours, knock…
- The Radio Station That Overthrew a CountryI have a question. How many soldiers does it take to overthrow a country? In Guatemala in 1954, the answer appears to have been: fewer than you think, plus several airplanes, a…
- The Fog That Was a Weapons TestIn 1950, the United States military wanted to know whether an enemy could attack San Francisco with biological weapons. So naturally, they did the reassuring thing: they tested…
- The Crash That Would Not Stay an AccidentI have a question. If a United Nations secretary-general dies in a plane crash, and the official investigations cannot agree whether the plane crashed by accident, was attacked…
- The Corpse, the Briefcase, and the War’s Strangest LieI have a question. If you wanted to mislead Nazi Germany about an invasion, would you use forged radio traffic, a fake military unit, maybe some inflatable tanks? Or—and stay…
- The Coup Everyone Said Was ImpossibleI have a question. What if the conspiracy theory is true, but the popular version of it is still wrong? Because in 1953, the United States and Britain helped overthrow Iran’s…
- The Money That Fell Out of the SkyI have a question. If you jump out of a passenger jet in the middle of a rainstorm with a parachute, a bomb and two hundred thousand dollars, how exactly do you become a folk…
- The Secret Army That Was RealI have a question. What if the conspiracy theory is true, but the version people repeat on the internet is still mostly wrong? Because there really was a secret army in Western…
- The Poison Pills, the Mafia, and the Castro ProblemI have a question. What happens when a government agency decides the best way to remove a foreign dictator is to outsource the job to the Mafia? No, that is not the opening scene…
