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Premium 46 - the Cathars pt. 4, CIA: Cathars in Action - Esoteric Angleton and the Wilderness of Mirrors (Patreon)

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2022-09-23 19:40:42
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2023-01

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Today's the final installment of the Cathar series, dropped a few days early because I'll be busy next week.

I finally did it - an Angleton episode. I discuss the life and times of James Jesus Angleton. I argue that there's something new for listeners with any level of Angleton familiarity. I discuss Soviet defectors, the Trust, Kim Philby, Anatoly Golitsyn and Yuri Nosenko, MKULTRA, the Lovestone empire, the Israelis, the USS Liberty, the Monster Plot, and Edward Clare Petty. It's my grandiose contention that I advance the theory of Angleton-as-mole one step further by looking at Petty's career. Finally, I look at Angleton's conception of himself and the spiritual implications of espionage.


Songs:

various tracks from the Good Shepherd OST

selections from the Nosenko interrogation - Feb 23, 1964 - Reel 13 & Reel 12: Nick and Subject, record 104-10534-10006

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https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/

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Anonymous

Great episode. One request, could you provide the literature in the episode description? Thanks

Anonymous

I listened to the Stalin podcast on Mindgamez and I was wondering if you'd read Getty and Naumov on the Terror. Their thesis isn't completely stated up front, but they definitely seem to reject the idea that Stalin planned it all long in advance. I think their thesis is that Yezhov became increasingly convinced that the old left and right oppositionists were a serious threat to the regime, that he continually pushed for new investigations, and the end result was a kind of mass outbreak of paranoia in the Soviet elite.

Anonymous
>>93076097

One of the things that made the paranoia was so pervasive was that all the Trotskyists, Zinovievists and Kamenevists had been posted to various places all around the country in the 1920s once their leaders fell out of power in order to make sure they had no strongholds. This meant that when the paranoia started to get intense in the late 1930s, not only they but also their bosses (who had protected them during previous purges), and anyone who had worked for those bosses was suspect, and this meant pretty much everyone in the Party.

Anonymous
>>93076097

The conclusion of the first investigation into Kirov's death by Yezhov (not a Chekist at the time) and Agranov (a regional Cheka boss) was that the Moscow Zinovievites including Zinoviev himself had no idea that Kirov was going to be assassinated, and that no collusion by the Leningrad Cheka could be proved - just absolute rank incompetence. If Stalin had really wanted to go after the Opposition at the time he would surely have tried to come up with a result that said Zinoviev ordered the hit instead of being merely morally responsible because it was a guy in his faction that did it.