Yes, The CIA Hired Magicians, Chapter One: The Craft and The Art

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The US Central Intelligence Agency gets a lot of criticism these days - historically, the institution has a number of missteps. The thing about unorthodox "outside-the-box" approaches is simply this: some ideas work, and some ideas are superb. A few decades back, the CIA hired a magician.

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0:00.0	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
0:06.9	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:12.1	A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.
0:27.1	My name is Matt.
0:28.2	My name is Noel.
0:29.5	They call me, Ben.
0:30.9	We're joined, as always, with our super producer, Andrew, the Triforce Howard.
0:35.3	Most importantly, you are you, you are here.
0:38.2	That makes this the stuff they don't want you to know.
0:42.0	It's that time again.
0:44.3	Friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realists,
0:46.7	we are exploring one of the largest subjects in all of U.S. conspiracy lore,
0:52.8	the Central Intelligence Agency, or the CIA.
0:56.5	And let's be honest, guys, they get a lot of guff.
1:00.8	Yeah.
1:01.7	Well, I can't imagine what kind of issues people might have with the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA.
1:08.2	Well, yeah, I think a lot of it has to do with how,
1:12.4	uh, how much they employ trickery, right?
1:15.6	That idea of the CIA being so deceptive, which is at the heart of this episode.
1:23.4	That's right.
1:24.3	Yeah, uh, which may end up being a two-part episode, a series, because we're diving
1:29.9	into some deep water. Historically, it is true. The agency, as it's sometimes called, this
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