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We are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, with Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team.
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Sunday May 17, 2020
Sunday May 17, 2020
Rounding off our weekend of US History, Pulitzer winning journalist and author Tim Weiner joins us to talk about the early history of the CIA. Based on his book Legacy of Ashes, we learn all about the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the early conflicts in ethos and why up to and including the Cuban Missile Crisis, success was anything but a given.
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You might be interested, my great uncle recently gave his story about being the first CIA agent in history and the global mission he was sent on to be imprisoned along with Richard Sorge.
Sunday May 17, 2020
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