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This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Here’s a recent favorite episode — the first part of a four-part series we did on the Church Committee hearings. We’ll be back real soon with new stories!

We’ve got a new miniseries for you, looking back at the 1975 Church Committee hearings and report, which disclosed a wide array of shady behavior by the NSA, FBI, and CIA.

For the next four episodes, we’ll look at the findings and what the revelations meant for US government and media. We’ll look at Meddling Abroad, Meddling at Home, Meddling with Your Mind, and Meddling in the Press.

Our guest for this series is Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, Reaganland, The Invisible Bridge, and much more.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Jody here, just letting you know that this is a recent favorite episode of this day.
0:05.4	We're running a couple of these to give ourselves a little bit of a break as we plot out the new year's
0:09.8	worth of episodes. We will be back very soon with new episodes, but for now enjoy and see you soon.
0:18.8	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia, my name is Jody Avrogant.
0:26.3	This is the first of a four-part special that we are doing.
0:29.2	We are originally just going to record one episode looking at some of the findings from the Church Committee hearings
0:34.7	in 1975 and then the report in 1976, which investigated and exposed in many ways lots of covert
0:42.2	activity by the NSA, FBI and CIA, shady activity abroad,
0:46.7	spying at home, mind control, you know, good stuff like that. And then we realize,
0:51.6	wow, there is so much here.
0:53.2	Let's blow this out.
0:54.1	Let's have our own version of wall hearings.
0:56.8	These were broadcast on TV after all, which we'll get into.
1:00.0	So here we are a four-part series looking back at all we learned in 1975, which some people have called the year of intelligence,
1:07.8	which I don't think anyone would say about 2022, or I don't know if you could say that about any year in American history.
1:14.0	But nevertheless, 1975, they called it the year of intelligence, certainly intelligence revelations.
1:19.1	I will explain sort of the structure of this series in a moment, but here to help guide our church committee
1:25.1	miniseries are as always Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson
1:29.4	of Wellesley hello there
1:30.8	hello jody hey there and ride-along for this series is special guest
1:35.8	Rick Perlstein historian and journalist and author of many incredible books that
1:40.4	chronicle a lot of this era particularly the rise of modern
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