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Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (WIW 13)
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
EPISODE 107 | Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (World Is Weird 13)
Guest: Mandy Theis, founder and director of the School of Atelier Arts, academic director and professor at the Florence Academy of Art
Maybe you've walked into a museum or gallery and seen a big white, blank canvas, or a huge circle, and thought, "So, this is art, eh?". But why is there so much of this abstract stuff around? The answer might be surprising - because the CIA promoted it as part of the Cold War.
And then it rather got away from them. Today, the art market is the most unregulated in the world, and aesthetics and skill take a back seat to branding.
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02:31 - Atelier training, the CIA begins, the cultural Cold War was run by elitists, Julia Child, Realism gets rebranded as Communist, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, cadmium red as protest, dry brushing technique, techniques follow money, skill list art, technical skills are being lost
12:30 - Social Realism, Czech Functionalism and German Bauhaus, Cubist architecture, art is always in motion, Russians tweaked French Realism, Abstract art eclipses realism, a war of aesthetics and marketing, the French discount the Americans, America pushes Abstract Expressionism, Marshall Plan money becomes a black bag, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Clement Greenberg, Art criticism as marketing
23:18 - the NCL (Non-Communist Left), Jackson Pollack was a CIA tool, American racial attitudes work against them
28:24 - Abstract Expressionism promoted as ultimate American style because it has no inherent meaning, it's safe; Picasso had atelier training, Truman hated abstract art ("ham and egg men"), George Dondero goes nuts about abstract art on the House floor, Realism is not retrograde, we are losing the artistic skills to make beautiful things
36:06 - the CIA's efforts were very successful, the modern art market is the most unregulated in the world, technique gets separated from art so it all becomes about money, everything is branded, Warhol critiques all this, fine art feels remote from most of us, the art world is a closed circuit, Thomas Kinkade was successful because at least his work meant something to some people, scribbles are scribbles but branding makes them art
47:51 - Don't know if it's art, but I like it; Realism is still villainized
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The School of Atelier Arts website
Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders
Springville Museum of Art - largest public collection of 20th century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States
15 things to know about Norman Rockwell
Why Norman Rockwell Matters
Ralph McQuarrie: Star Wars' Concept Artist
A Visit to the CIA’s “Secret” Abstract Art Collection
Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?
Class 8. The CIA and the Cultural Cold War
Origins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 Cultural Cold War on CIA.gov
WHEN FREEDOM TOOK THE OFFENSIVE: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of Ideas
Congress for Cultural Freedom on Spartacus Educational
Cold Warrior: The Clement Greenberg Phenomenon
CIA Weaponizing Abstract Art and Its Fallout
The use of American art in the Cold War
How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War
Ford Foundation - Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politics
The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaborationwith the Secret Police
Modern art was CIA 'weapon'
How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War
Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
Jackson Pollock & the CIA on The Conspiracy of Art website
Why did the CIA sponsor Jackson Pollock?
Pollock is Bollocks
Pollock: genius or charlatan?
Jackson Pollock: Separating Man from Myth
Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe - BBC Viewpoint
“They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2
Why abstract art is not valid
Abstract Art Is Not Art and Definitely Not Abstract
The Tyranny of Abstract Art in The Atlantic
Communist conspiracy in art threatens American museums, Congressional Record, March, 17, 1952
Anticommunism and Modern Art - selection from the George Dondero Papers
THE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADE
The Shame of the Mural Censors — Why Art and History Matter
Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Deconstructing Art And/As Ideology on Project MUSE
Modern American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy
Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War
'The art trade is the last major unregulated market'
A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market. - Freakonomics ep. 484
The Art Market: Unregulated Unscrupulous And Worth Billions
High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world
THE ART MARKET: AFFLUENCE AND DEGRADATION on Art Forum
Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light book
Thomas Kinkade: A Success - 60 Minutes
Thomas Kinkade: The Painter Art Critics Hated but America Loved
Much to the Chagrin of the Art Establishment, the Numbers Indicate that Thomas Kinkade Is the Most Successful and Relevant Artist in Human History
Thomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
EPISODE 105 | Capitol Assets: Weird DC (Travelogue 4)
Guest: Fayge Horesh, co-creator, writer and host of the D Listers of History podcast, and licensed tour guide
Washington D.C. is an interesting place and, like many cities, has some oddities. We take a look at some of the things around town that might not be obvious at first glance, like (not-so secret) tunnels, ghost cats, strange clocks, hollow domes, street plans, statues, snipers, protected trees, food trucks and more.
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SECTIONS
03:42 - Making the past accessible, Daniel of Beccles, Father Divine, traces of history, Deep Throat in Rosslyn
06:35 - Pierre L'Enfant's plans, Masonic symbols, quadrants, a hidden pentagram, Benjamin Banneker's thighs, DC once had canals (gross ones)
14:03 - Street plan as weather control machine yet the weather is terrible, underground tunnels (one open to the public), the Ghost Cat, no sitting on the floor, the Capitol Dome is hollow
21:37 - The Women's Portrait Monument, so many statues
23:43 - Snipers and other security, food truck a-go-go
28:33 - The NIST Newton Apple Tree in International Park, don't linger in front of the former Iran Embassy, clocks and time in Friendship Heights, conspiracy theories are distractions, Chinatown has very few Chinese people
36:55 - Explore your city and embrace the weirdness
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
D Listers of History podcast
’Merican Monuments (Travelogue 2) episode
The world of Daniel of Beccles D Listers episode
Book of the Civilized Man by Daniel of Beccles article
A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C. in Smithsonian
Grand Avenues: The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant on the Virginia Museum of History & Culture
Benjamin Banneker: The Black Tobacco Farmer Who the Presidents Couldn't Ignore on the White House Historical Association
Capitol Building Tunnel System
What lies beneath DC? Many more tunnels than you might think!
The D.C. Underground Atlas
Demon Cat: the tale of a wanderlust feline ghost
Make America Ghostly Again: The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.
Does The Demon Cat Still Haunt Washington's Capitol Hill?
Bells, Buzzers, Clicks and Clocks
Congressional Clocks Have a Secret Code on Atlas Obscura
Capitol Illumination
Inside the Capitol Dome
Hidden Congress: An Alternative Tour of the U.S. Capitol
Apotheosis of Washington
Leaders in Equality: The Portrait Monument
Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The Suffragist Statue Trapped in a Broom Closet for 75 Years
How Security Measures In Washington, D.C., Have Changed Since 9/11
12 Best Washington DC Food Trucks on Female Foodie
Find food trucks in DC on Roaming Hunger
What happened to D.C.’s food trucks? The answer says much about the ‘new normal.’
NIST Newton Apple Tree
Where To Find The Most Unusual Trees In D.C.
After the arena came, the Asian population of Washington's Chinatown shrank
269 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Washington, D.C.
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Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
Wednesday Jan 31, 2024
EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe – The Devil’s Triangle
Back in the 70s, the Bermuda Triangle was all over the place but today, not so much. Whatever happened with that? Did it go away? Was it debunked? Or did the woosphere simply get bored and move on to juicer subjects?
A bit of both. Plus, the are lots of other supposed interesting/mysterious/dangerous triangles out there. They do have sharp corners, after all.
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SECTIONS
02:29 - New Frontier - How it all starts: Edward Van Winkle Jones gets the ball rolling in 1950, Allan W. Eckert picks it up in 1952, Vincent Gaddis expands the idea in 1962, as does John Wallace Spencer in 1969, and in 1974, Charles Berlitz and Richard Winer go all in on the Triangle; Larry Kusche thoroughly debunks it all in 1975, Hitchens' Razor and the Sagan Standard (ECREE)
11:31 - Strange Brew - Cayce's people weigh in as do plenty of other knowledge garglers, better woo comes along, Lloyds of London investigates, Gian J. Quasar tries to revive Triangle interest in the Noughties
15:17 - Your Haunted Head - The Sargasso Sea - an oceanic gyre surrounded by four currents, Donald Crowhurst gets stuck there and goes insane
19:36 - Long Way Down - Ocean farts, the Gulf Stream, the Milwaukee Deep, the agonic line and the North Poles (both true and magnetic)
24:59 - Hunting High and Low - The Dragon's Triangle near Japan, Ivan Sanderson develops his Twelve Vile Vortices theory:
27:31 - "Hamkulia Volcano", Hawaii; the Ring of Fire
29:14 - Jeddars in the Atlas Mountains, Algeria; fungoid rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer
29:57 - Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, ancient nuclear war, chicken city
34:00 - The Wharton Basin, Indian Ocean, Flight MH370
34:44 - The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia; Sandy Island
35:52 - Easter Island, Rapa Nui, Szukalski's Zermatism, Miroljub Petrović
37:26 - The Southern Atlantic Anomaly, the Mozambique Channel
38:22 - Fever to Tell - Ley lines, Ramsey's Theorem, the Bridgewater Triangle near Boston (home of the Pukwudgie), the Bennington Triangle in Vermont, the Nevada Triangle, the Lake Michigan Triangle and yet another "America's Stonehenge"
41:45 - The Marysburgh Vortex in Lake Ontario, the Matlock Triangle and Falkirk Triangle in the UK, the Broad Haven Triangle in Wales, the Hoia Forest in Romania
42:47 - The Mapimí Silent Zone in Mexico's Chihuahuan desert
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Sea's Puzzles Still Baffle Men In Pushbutton Age by Edward Van Winkle Jones, Miami Herland, 1950
Sea Mystery at our Back Door by George X. Sand, Fate Magazine, 1952
The Mystery of the Lost Patrol by Allan W. Eckert, American Legion Magazine, April 1962, page 12
The Deadly Bermuda Triangle by Vincent Gaddis, The Argosy, February 1964
Invisible Horizons True Mysteries of the Sea by Vincent Gaddis
Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer
The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
The Devils' Triangle by Richard Winer
The Devil's Triangle 2 by Richard Winer
From the Devil's Triangle to the Devil's Jaw by Richard Winer
Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved by Larry Kusche
The Case of the Bermuda Triangle episode of NOVA
What is the Bermuda Triangle? on the National Oceanic Service website
Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear on LiveScience
Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by Gian Quasar
Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea in The Bermudian
The Mystery on the Sargasso on How Stuff Works
Donald Crowhurst: The fake round-the-world sailing story behind The Mercy in Yachting World
They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did by Shannon Proudfoot on Big Reads
Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton
Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas on The Age
7 Chilling Conspiracy Theories About the Bermuda Triangle in Popular Mechanics
Down in the Milwaukee Deep
Magnetic Declination Varies Considerably Across The United States on USGS
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Delusion: Looking Back after Forty Years by Larry Kuche for Skeptical Inquirer
Mysterious waters: from the Bermuda Triangle to the Devil's Sea on CNN
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: The Devil's Sea documentary video
Unexplained Mystery: The Devil’s Sea – The Dragon’s Triangle on Marine Insight
The Vile Vortices Of Ivan T. Sanderson on History Daily
Vile Vortices Part 2 – Hamakulia on CryptoVille
Algeria's ancient pyramid tombs still shrouded in mystery on France24
What Happened to Mohenjo Daro? on Wonderopolis
Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro on National Geographic
Uncovering the Secrets of the Indus Valley Civilization and Its Undeciphered Script
The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-Daro
Top Things to Do in the Loyalty Islands
Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode
The Secrets of Easter Island on Smithsonian
Easter Island - the Mystery of the Moai on Mountain Kingdoms
Rapa Nui on IMDb
What Lies Beneath - The Hollow Earth episode including Zermatism
Weird behavior of Earth's magnetic field over South Atlantic dates back 11 million years
NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
10 Mozambique Channel Facts You Might Not Know
Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa from the University of Hong Kong
It Happens Here: A look at the 'weirdness' of the Bridgewater Triangle
Bennington Triangle, Vermont on Legends of America
Mysteries of Flight: The Nevada Triangle
Lake Michigan Triangle on Atlas Obscura
What Is the Great Lakes Triangle? classroom activity
Stonehenge-like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan
‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle'
The Great Lakes and the mystery of the Marysburgh Vortex
Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes' Bermuda Triangle by Hugh F. Cochrane
The Falkirk Triangle in Scotland
Why Is a Small Village in Scotland the UK's UFO Hotspot?
What’s inside Hoia Baciu Forest, the world's most haunted forest?
Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest of Transylvania
What does the Mexican Bermuda Triangle look like
Enter The Mapimi Zone Of Silence: Where Science Fiction Meets Reality
The Zone of Silence in Northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?
Zone Of Silence Mexico video
Mexico: UFOs, magnetism, army: The strange zone of silence
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Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (WIW 12)
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
Wednesday Jan 03, 2024
EPISODE 101 | Panic! at the Disco - The Jan. 6 Event (World Is Weird 12)
On January 6, 2021 at 12:53 EST, a mass of people overwhelmed police on the west side of the US Capitol Building in Washington DC. At 2:11, a window was broken, and they entered the building. What followed was a bizarre scene, with some happy to just wander around, while others had more active plans. When it was over, 5 people were dead, 138 law enforcement personnel were injured (15 needing hospitalization), and an untold number of civilians were also injured. Eventually, more than 1100 people would be charged with various crimes committed that day.
What exactly happened here? Whatever you want to call it, it was fueled by conspiracy theories and conspiracy thinking. And it also engendered CTs of its own. The conspirasphere had finally run amok.
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SECTIONS
03:21 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out - Sept. 29, 2020 "stand back and stand by", #stopthesteal, white supremacists and other militia asshats make plans for the Nov. 3 election, they set their eyes on the "innauguration" (sic), the Million MAGA March, Women for America First, Proud Boys leader Tarrio makes a mistake on Dec. 12
09:39 - High Hopes - Trump and Barr spar, Dec. 14 looms large, firings and hirings, shouts and insults, the #wildprotest is announced on Dec. 19, plans are made to meet on Jan. 6, pressure on Pence, threats of a "red wedding"
19:48 - Vices & Virtues - Trump calls Raffensperger on Jan. 2, Trump gets conflicting advice, Tarrio gets arrested on Jan. 4, bombs are planted, Trump sets up a war room at the Intercontinental Willard, Trump really doesn't want to leave office and rewrites his upcoming speech
25:50 - Mad as Rabbits - Jan. 6, 8:17am-2:39pm: the "rally", Giuliani talks, an extraordinary video is shown, arrests are plan and plans are laid, Trump gives his speech, the crowd finds inspiration, Trump tries to take the wheel, Proud Boys head to the Capitol, crowds follow, help is asked for, the crowd surges, the building is breached, police are attacked
38:44 - The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage - 2:44pm-3:49am: things get even uglier, help starts trickling in, attempts are still made to block certification, things finally get sorted
43:08 - Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Repercussions aplenty, dramatis personae, prison sentences with Tarrio the leader of the pack
48:57 - Emperor's New Clothes - What the heck were they all thinking? Apologist narratives, including the "false flag" trope
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
The January 6 insurrection: Minute-by-minute on CNN
Capitol riots timeline: What happened on 6 January 2021? on BBC
A timeline of how the Jan. 6 attack unfolded — including who said what and when on NPR
A Timeline of the Government's Response on Jan. 6, 2021 on American Oversight
EXPLAINER: A look at far-right extremists in Jan. 6 riot on AP News
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection on Just Security
The January 6 Effect: An Evolution of Hate and Extremism on the ADL website
Read: Full transcript of Donald Trump’s call to Brad Raffensperger on Atlanta News First
Trump film on the Ellipse Jan. 6 video
Movie at the Ellipse: A Study in Fascist Propaganda on Just Security
Did This 2 Min. Video Help Incite the Jan. 6 Rioters? video
Read Trump's Jan. 6 Speech, A Key Part Of Impeachment Trial on NPR
How Texans helped plot, foment and carry out the Jan. 6 insurrection in The Texas Tribune
The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson on ProPublica
What Happened to the Jan. 6 Rioters Arrested Since the Capitol Attack on Time
Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving in Newsweek
Trump supporter at center of a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory: "It's just been hell" on Axios
Fox News sued by man at centre of Jan 6 conspiracy theory on Al Jazeera
Conspiracy Theorist Presumed Dead in Explosion During Police Standoff on Vice
What words should we use to describe what happened in the Capitol? on Poynter
What the History of the Word “Insurrection” Says About Jan. 6 in Time
There’s an ongoing battle of words to describe Jan 6, 2021. Here’s why it matters on PBS News
Has the U.S. Capitol Been Attacked Before? on Gale
Expert weighs in on why the Capitol riot was not an unusual historical event on Spectrum News 1
The Capitol Has Been Attacked Before: This Time It Was Different on American University website
Conspiracy Theories and January 6th on Public Wise
Conspiracy theories paint fraudulent reality of Jan. 6 riot on PBS News
A Guide to the Right’s Unhinged Conspiracy Theories about Jan. 6 in Rolling Stone
January 6 conspiracy theories and debunked claims on The National News
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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (WIW 11)
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
EPSIODE 95 | Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11)
More than 100 million soldiers took part in WWII, but not all of them were fighting with guns. There was obviously a lot of administration and infrastructure to deal with, there were codebreakers and spies, and there were even some who engaged in secret deception to trick the enemy.
This episode is not abouts ghosts, but rather the Ghost Army. No, not a battalion of unstoppable undead like Aragorn brings with him against the forces of Mordor, but a dirty tricks tactical deception unit the Allies deployed in Europe near the end of the war to fool Axis commanders.
Because, as the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war. This episode is partly a cynical attempt to lure in military history fans, but these are also really interesting stories. And you might consider them to have been, in fact, conspiracies, ones that were successful, by and large.
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SECTIONS
02:58 - Sucker Bait - Dudley Clarke, Jasper Maskelyne, North Africa fun, Operation Crusader, Operation Bertram, the Second Battle of EL Alamein, Sunshields & Cannibals, Operation Canwell, Operation Sly Bob, HMS Houdin
12:08 - I’ll Make Mincemeat Out of That Mouse! - Operation Husky (the invasion of Sicily); Operations Barclay, Mincemeat, Waterfall & Animals, the Trout Memo
16:47 - Don't Touch the Sides! - Operations Overlord, Neptune, Bodyguard, Wadham, Starkey, Tindall & Cockade; 'A' Force, Plan Jael, Operations Fortitude & Ironside, double agents (Garbo, Brutus, Tricycle, Tate & Bronx), Operations Graffham, Royal Flush & Zeppelin
23:52 - We Can Scare You, but You Can't Scare Us - The Ghost Army, Eye of the Needle, Operation Quicksilver, the 3132 Signal Service Company Special & spoof radio, Operation Viersen
30:31 - Surfin' USA - Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gets inspired by HMS Tormentor, the Beach Jumpers, PsyOps, the Navy SEALs
36:04 - Would I Lie to You? - The Siege of Yapu, Alexander crosses the Hydaspes River, Sun Bin of the Qi, the Empty Fort Strategy, Mongol deceptions, the Sultan Baybars takes the Krak des Chevaliers in the Ninth Crusade, the Americans vs Brits & North Vietnamese
40:03 - MILDEC strategies & guidelines - Sun Tzu vs. Clausewitz, the fog of war, the five main MILDEC tactics, Magruder's Principle, Jones' Dilemma, Avoid Windfalls, Multiple Forms of Surprise
45:38 - We're Not as Clever as We Think We Are - The military influences fashion, all deception if about perception and psychology
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Magic in the Desert on the Warfare History Network website
The Magician of WWII who Made Tanks Disappear on War History Online
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt
The War Magician: The True Story of Jasper Maskelyne by David Fisher
Operation Bertram on the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia
A 5-Minute History Of The Battle Of El Alamein
Dummy Tanks and Fake Radio Broadcasts: WW2's Biggest Deception Campaigns
Operation Husky: The Classroom for Amphibious Landings
Trout Memo on Military History Wiki
What Was Operation Mincemeat?
Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation on NPR
Operation Mincemeat: The man who never was on The History Press
"A" Force: The Origins of British Deception During the Second World War by Whitney T. Bendeck
6 Daring Double Agents on History.com
Agent Garbo on MI5 website
Secret Agents, Secret Armies: The D-Day Misfit Spies on the National WWII Museum website
A Pioneering Experiment - OSS Double-Agent Operations in World War II paper by Robert Cowden
The Ghost Army Legacy Project website
How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis in Smithsonian Magazine
The Top-Secret WWII Unit That Fooled the Nazis on History.com
Ghost Army book and film
How a Ghost Army of American artists helped defeat Hitler in The Week
Inside the 23rd, the 3132 Signal Company, The Sonic Deceivers
Operation Viersen mission summary
D-DAY DECEPTION: OPERATION FORTITUDE SOUTH
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
The Defeat of Hitler: D-Day Invasion on The History Place
How Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Crafted an Impressive Military Career on Miltary.com
Douglas Fairbanks's Drama on the High Seas on HistoryNet
The Beach Jumpers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. video by The History Guy
U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers Association
UDT-SEAL Association
Army document FM 3-13.4 Army Support to Military Deception
Deceivingly Decisive: U.S. Army Military Deception and Counterintelligence article by First Lieutenant Will Rector
Two Taxonomies of Deception for Attacks on Information Systems by Neil C. Rowe and Hy S. Rothstein, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
Tactical Level PSYOP and MILDEC Information Oper Operations: How to Smartly and Lawfully Prime the Battlefield paper by Joshua E. Kastenberg
The lost and found art of deception on US Army website
‘The Art of War’: As relevant now as when it was written in Irish Times
The Grand Strategy of Carl von Clausewitz on Warroom
On War Without the Fog article in Military Review
Genghis Khan's Secrets of Success on HistoryNet
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Science of Military Camouflage blog on UF PRO
Lessons from Others for Future U.S. Army Operations in and Through the Information Environment paper by the Rand Corporation
Deploying Deception on the Battlefield in Scientific American
The Military Influence on Fashion on Highsnobiety
The Psychology of Cognitive Deception
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
EPISODE 94 | Peek-A-Boo: Project Star Gate
The US military heard the Soviets were working on creating psychic spies, so they started their own program, which would, after many name changes, get dubbed Project Star Gate. This would attract cranks and flim-flammers of all kinds over its 25 year run, resulting in not much useful intel but inspiring some participants to make a number of outlandish claims and starting various conspiracy theories about remote viewing techniques.
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SECTIONS
03:37 - Get Ready - The Soviet Project AIZEN, SCANATE at SRI, Uri Geller
07:53 - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves - The Scientologists: Harold Putoff, Pat Price, Ingo Swann (the most successful remote viewer of all time), sexy bio-androids go shopping, a thirsty UFO
12: 37 - Joseph McMoneagle (the most successful remote viewer of all time) doesn't find General James Dozier, makes predictions that don't come true
16:02 - David Morehouse (the most successful remote viewer of all time)
17:26 - Fly Like an Eagle - Jewish Hungarian cowboy Edwin May takes over, Gondola Wish, Grill Flame moves to Fort Meade, Major General Albert Stubblebine, the Soviet Project Znacki, Sun Streak, Project Star Gate, Ray Hyman finds fault (again)
24:34 - So Be It, Jedi - Various JEDIs, not those stargates, Suggestopedia, the First Earth Batallion
29:20 - (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Ed Dames (the most successful remote viewer of all time), remote viewing is not really "seeing", Psi Tech, Harry DeLighter, Dames makes predictions and some money
35:10 - Subterranean Homesick Alien - The KGB's Project ISIS, the Brits look into remote viewing (in a half-arsed way), how much did all this cost, talented remote viewer Courtney Brown, Star Trek, yogic flying, the Heaven's Gate cult
43:10 - Sympathy for the Devil - Aaron Hanson née Donahue (the greatest psychic of all time) and his father, James Donahue, angels are bat aliens from Orion, Aaron as the Hopi Pahana, Aaron starts his Luciferian Order (cult), and he's a colossal racist, Aaron and Ed Dames fall out over Japanese TV money, Aaron runs for president
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander
Unconventional research in USSR and Russia: short overview, 2013 paper by Serge Kernbach
CIA releases psychic experiment documents on CNET, 2017
STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing] on FAS Intelligence Resource Program
Uri Geller on the Tonight Show, August 1, 1973 video
Uri Geller interview with The Guardian. September 2022
Operation Star Gate: U.S. Intelligence and Psychic Spies in Enigma
Remote Viewing, Reality, and the Human Condition, Russell Targ article with links
CIA documents about Ingo Swann
Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer by Joseph McMoneagle
Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
Psychic Warrior: The True Story of the CIA's Paranormal Espionage Programme by David Morehouse
The Monroe Institute website
CIA entry for Gondola Wish
CIA entry for Project Grill Flame
Grill Flame Project DIA session report, July 31, 1999
Meet the Former Pentagon Scientist Who Says Psychics Can Help American Spies in Newsweek
Rise Up and Fight the Swine Flu Conspiracy, article of Stubblebine's pseudomedical nonsense
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Saddam’s Stargate and Taskforce 20 episode
The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone, 1988 WaPo article by Sally Squires
Read The CIA 1983 Report About Transcending Spacetime With Your Mind
Remotely Viewed? The Charlie Jordan Case
Remote Viewing Matrix (Ed Dames's latest name change)
Free Energy: The Race to Zero Point movie
Coast to Coast AM - Project Stargate with Dale Graff
Coast to Coast AM - Remote Viewing Satan with Ed Dames (Dec. 21, 1998)
Hocus Pocus - Is Ed Dames Exploiting Missing and Murdered Children for Self Promotion?
Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond! episode
Project ISIS: The Secret KGB ★ Abduction Files Part 1 video
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Psi in The Independent
British Military Tests Psychic Warfare in Wired
British Ministry of Defence Remote Viewing archive
Ministry of Defence 2002 report
UK forces tested, rejected psychic techniques in The Register
The psychic hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth by Courtney Brown
The Farsight Institute website
Courtney Brown's 'Cosmic Voyage' in Preposterism in the Skeptical Inquirer
The Courtney Brown Affair and Academic Freedom in the Skeptical Inquirer
Courtney Brown - Adolf Hitler: Remote Viewing a Mass Murderer video
The Hopi Turned Their Backs On The Pahana by James Donahue
Under the Vatican - Revelation of the Beast by James Donahue
Remote Viewing the 45th President of the USA 2016 James Hanson video
Aaron C. Hanson documents archive
Suspect Zero movie (18% on Rotten Tomatoes)
Aaron C. Hanson entry in the Encyclopedia of American Loons
The Truth About Remote Viewing on Skeptoid
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Octopus’s Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10)
A number of unusual deaths, law enforcement software, mob families, casinos, drug running, arms dealing, and a possible nationwide, possible international, conspiracy known as the Octopus – this wild and complicated tale reads like a whole series of thriller novels and is further proof that the world is weird indeed.
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SECTIONS
01:59 - Complicated Life - 1977: The weird death of Charles “Chuck” Morgan, Don Devereux investigates
08:48 - Herbie Goes Bananas - 1990: Joseph Bonanno aka Joe Bananas aka Don Peppino, Devereux helps Unsolved Mysteries on a story about Morgan, Doug Johnston dies across the street from Devereux's house, Dan Casolaro contacts Devereux in 1991
12:58 - Squid Game - 1973-1991: Dan Casolaro, dilletante & part-time journalist, starts poking around into rumors around INSLAW's PROMIS software, the 1980 October Surprise theory, Iran Contra and the BCCI Scandal
21:36 - Danger Man & the Octopus - 1989-1991: Casolaro encounters Michael Riconosciuto ("Danger Man"), begins to see the shape of the Octopus, starts getting threats
25:43 - Meeting in Martinsburg - 1991: Casolaro goes to Martinsburg, West Virginia but never makes it home, weirdness at his funeral, unanswered questions and "missing" files
32:47 - You Better You Bet - 1978-1981: Cabazon murders in Rancho Mirage, the the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, secret government dealings, mafia dudes, INSLAW and Michael Riconosciuto again, Wackenhut, drug running, software trojan horses, hitman James Hughes
40:35 - Giant Octopus Kraken - 1982-1991: Riconosciuto's roommate is killed, NSA guy Alan David Standorf is killed, Riconosciuto's lawyer is killed, journalist Anson Ng Yong is killed in Guatemala while researching much of all this, arms running, INSLAW, BCCI, and the DOJ
44:33 - Death & Espionage - 1976-2001: John Munson tries to frame Riconosciuto, then his girlfriend dies; the Spiro family are killed in Southern California; arms dealer turned Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen turns double agent
50:10 - Trying to make some sense of it all
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I consistently mispronounce the name of Michael Riconosciuto thruoghout this episode, only finding out after I had recorded and edited that it should be closer to "Re-con-SHOO-toh" My bad.
More Info:
The Odd Mystery behind Charles C. Morgan's Death
Cold Case: Strange evidence found in '77 on, near man's body
Joe Bonanno Tuscon Arizona Crew Members video
The Kinship of Killers
FBI Phoenix History
The Odd Death of Charles C. Morgan on Unsolved Wiki
Chuck Morgan on Unsolved Mysteries
A Case of Mistaken Identity? The Strange Death of Doug Johnston
Devereux Reports website
Danny Casolaro on Alchetron
Danny Casolaro on Unsolved Mysteries
The Last Days of Danny Casolaro article plus several links
The Strange Death of Danny Casolaro New York Times article, reprinted
What Killed Danny Casolaro? Washington Post article
THE STRANGE DEATH OF DANNY CASOLARO in Vanity Fair
FBI files on Dan Casolaro
Dan's file titled CIA Frank Terpil Renegades
Danny Casolaro's files and notes
Danny Casolaro Died for You backstory
The Mysterious Death Of Danny Casolaro
The INSLAW File
The INSLAW Affair - chapter 17 of The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
The INSLAW Affair documents
Federal Corruption: INSLAW by Harry V. Martin
The Promis Threat: An Octopus Slouches Toward Mena, Arkansas, Area 51 and The International UFO Congress in Las Vegas by Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel press, #7
Octopus Revisited by Kenn Thomas
The Undying Octopus: FBI and the PROMIS affair Part 1
Black Arcadia - Danny Casolaro and the Octopus - Parts 1-3
Parts 4-7, Lindsay Biziak Murder parts 1-2
Parts 8-10
The INSLAW Octopus in Wired
Code for PROMIS software
BCCI SCANDAL: BEHIND THE 'BANK OF CROOKS AND CRIMINALS' in the Washington Post
The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
BCCI Scandal document
Danny Casolaro and the Octopus Syndicate video
Casolaro Murder excerpts from The Village Voice
Cabazon: How 'Indian gaming' began - LaRouche article
Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery
Badlands - article in Spy Magazine about many of these stories
Worldwide Conspiracy, Or Fantasy? -- Felon's Story Checks Out - Kind Of
Journalist Investigating Bank Was Second To Die
Guatemala: Journalist's Murder May Be Linked With Bcci Scandal
Murder in Rancho Santa Fe
Investigators closed a mysterious murder case Wednesday and blamed...
Secret Government Program Linked To Local Murders? KESQ new story on murders, INSLAW and more
Transcript of interview with Ari Ben-Menashe for Journeyman.tv
Justice Department records confirm PROMIS scandal’s ties to Israel
How an FBI Sting Took Down KGB Spy Robert Hanssen on Spyscape
How Robert Hanssen Spied for the Soviets
Because there's a LOT more to this, the timeline from Danny Casolaro Died for You
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Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Oh, Canada!
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
EPISODE 90 | Oh, Canada!
The Great White North, the Just Society - Canada is a cold place filled with reasonable people. For the most part. But not even they are immune to the pull of the conspirasphere, and have hatched some wacky ideas all their own.
This episode is by request of a Canadian fan of the podcast. So enjoy!
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SECTIONS
02: 32 - Horton Hears an "Eh!" - Tim Hortons, Double-Doubles & Timbits, cocaine & reincarnation
05:35 - Little Potato - PM Justin Trudeau's paternity raises eyebrows
08:37 - Calling Occupants - The FLQ, Pierre Trudeau and the October Crisis
11:26 - Miles From Our Home - Baroness Birdwood, the 2014 Parliament Hill attack & the Parliament bombing of 1966
14:50 - David DePape visits San Francisco
17:02 - Snakes & Arrows - The NHL hates Canada, the Avro Arrow
21:34 - Gimme Your Money, Please - Canadians are talented, Canadian money has demons
25:23 - Bird on the Wire - Her Majesty Queen Romana Didulo, Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Canada; the White Helmets
30:03 - Magic Power - Nahanni, the Headless Valley
34:51 - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - The Shag Harbour UFO Incident
38:34 - Everything to Everyone - The disappearance of Granger Taylor
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Lapsus Linguae: I continually refer to the Avro Arrow as the "Arvo" Arrow because I was not paying attention
More Info
Is this the most Canadian photo ever?
X-Ray Shoe Fitter - Hilarious Histories with Nile Séguin (video)
What are some conspiracy theories about Canada?
14 things you didn't know about Tim Hortons
The Strange Conspiracy Behind Tim Hortons Coffee
Nicotine in Tim Hortons Coffee on Snopes
Top 5 Canadian Conspiracy Theories on Mysteries of Canada
The insane conspiracy of Justin Trudeau Castro
The internet is going wild over a conspiracy theory that Justin Trudeau has fake eyebrows
Joe Rogan jokes Justin Trudeau needs to prove he’s not Fidel Castro’s son
The FLQ and the October Crisis
The October Crisis on Le Canada
October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart
Baroness Birdwood obituary
Bomb in Parliament misses its target in 1966
Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was shot 31 times, police report to reveal
Uncovering a killer: Addict, drifter, walking contradiction
What we know about David DePape, the suspect in the attack on Paul Pelosi
DePape in bizarre phone call to KTVU says he should have been 'more prepared'
Millions believe in conspiracy theories in Canada
Chilling Canadian conspiracy theories explained
Pseudolaw - Cabbages & Kings
Why Is the NHL So Anti-Canadian?
Is the NHL rigged against Canada? Not really
The Avro Arrow Was Canada’s Awesome, Pointless Jet Fighter
Canada's Jet-Age Dream: The Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow debate on Quora
The Canadian Conspiracy - satirical video from 1985
The Devil Is in the Hairdo
True Or False? Canadian Money Once Had A Demon Hidden In Queen Elizabeth’s Hair
Who is Romana Didulo, the Filipino immigrant who calls herself ‘Queen of Canada’?
‘Queen of Canada’: the rapid rise of a fringe QAnon figure sounds alarm
Inside the QAnon Queen’s Cult: ‘The Abuse Was Non-Stop’
Inside the Conspiracy Theory That Turned Syria's First Responders Into Terrorists
Russian trolls attack Syrian humanitarians to cover up war crimes
Playing into Putin’s Hands: The White Helmets, Douma, And How U.S. Failures Become Russian Opportunities
Legends of the Nahanni Valley
Secrets of the Nahanni: The Valley of Headless Men
Valley of Headless Men: Mysterious Decapitations in Canada’s Nahanni Valley
Why the Nahanni Valley is Creepier Than Any Horror Film
Red Alert - UFOs as Threat! CC episode (Falcon Lake Incident)
Shag Harbour Incident continues to fascinate small N.S. fishing village
The Shag Harbour UFO incident video on CBC
Shag Harbour UFO Centre
Granger Taylor: The Spaceman of Vancouver Island
The Man Who Went to Space and Disappeared
Spaceman - documentary about Granger Taylor
B.C.‘s Granger Taylor left a note saying he was boarding an alien spaceship — then he disappeared
What happened to Granger Taylor?
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Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
EPISODE 88 | Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
Guest: Josh Bachynski, AI consultant
AI is here and it's here to stay. And despite all the hand wringing and doom-and-gloom predictions, the AI-powered future actually looks pretty bright. AI is already being used in a number of applications, and more are on the way.
Josh Bachynski and I talk about the inherent ethics of intelligence; AI/robot bees, burgers and beers; AI's predictive capabilities, AI religions, the Singularity and the most probable futures we will see in the next 50 years.
Think of this as a counterbalance to our earlier talk The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
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02:07 - The Five Worlds of AI - AI Fizzle, Futurama, AI-Dystopia, Singularia, Paperclipalypse; nice AI in pop culture - Max Headroom, Her (Samantha), Star Trek TNG (Data); philosophy points the way, making more trouble makes trouble, AI time scales, AI destables but also enables
14:35 - Current Uses for AI - RoboBees, predictive models, Falcon LLM
19:32 - Flippy the robot burger maker, AI bartenders, AI pizza makers, it's all robots, Intelligent X - AI/robot customized beer making, personal customization in all things; AI pattern recognition for credit card fraud, crime detection, football coaching; emotion detection, job interviews, police interrogations
27:23 - Long-term optimization strategies, Freakonomics, Beauty.AI for beauty contests, biases
36:22 - AI Religions - Are we playing god, we're eternal because we're information, the noosphere, the divine as information, the Holy Spirit as an AI-like tool, spiritual machines
43:02 - Kurzweil's Singularity - Six stages: the Information Age, the Age of Computation, the Age of Spiritual Machines, the Age of Intelligent Machines, Computer-Human Symbiosis, the Age of Robots; cybernetics and augmentations are used today, possible timelines for the Singularity (2045?)
49:24 - The Road to Utopia - Another potential timeline for the future
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Moral Concept - Josh Bachynski's blog (email him at joshbachynski@gmail.com)
Adapting to the AI Age podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
AI Personas & Ethics podcast episode on Digital Signage Done Right (w/transcript)
Use AI to Create Content Today on Digital Signage Done Right
Five Worlds of AI
At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman
Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Top 10 Unusual but Brilliant Use Cases of Artificial Intelligence
Falcon LLM
The Most Unusual Uses of Artificial Intelligence
Flippy 2 by Miso Robotics
FLIPPY The AI Burger Flipping Robot (video)
Japan's robot bartenders: Last call for human service?
Cyberdog - Prague's robot wine bar
Pizzaiola - AI Based Robotic Pizza Maker
The weirdest uses of AI
How Carlsberg is using AI to help develop new beers
Intelligent X - customized AI and robotic beer making
EveryHuman - Create your scent with Algorithmic Perfumery
The Amazing Ways How Mastercard Uses Artificial Intelligence To Stop Fraud And Reduce False Declines
AI Is Now Analyzing Candidates' Facial Expressions During Video Job Interviews
Paragraphica - the lenless AI camera
Freakonomics - the Hidden Side of Everything website
Beauty.AI
Visions of AI Utopia
Beyond The Hype: Five Exciting AI Outcomes In The Next Five Years on Forbes
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions
Entering the singularity: Has AI reached the point of no return? on The Hill
WTF is The Technological Singularity? on Hackernoon
Technological singularity on Transhumanism Wiki
Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
Ray Kurzweil website
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Humanity? – A Utopian View
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Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (WIW 9)
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
EPISODE 87 | CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (World Is Weird 9)
True crime is a popular genre, mainly because people love mysteries. Here are three cases from the conspiracy world that fit the bill, from three different decades and three different countries, where the weird and the unexplained meet head on.
We’ll look at the Lead Masks Case from Brazil, the UK’s Zigmund Adamski case (sometimes called the first UFO murder), and the Yuba County Five, also known as “America’s Dyatlov”.
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SECTIONS
02:26 - Killing Mask - The Brazilian Lead Masks Case (August 21, 1966)
17:31 - Working in the Coal Mine - The strange death of Zigmund Adamski (June 6, 1980)
24:35 - Misty Mountain Hop - America's Dyatlov: the Yuba County Five (February 24, 1978)
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info:
The Curious Case of the Lead Mask Deaths on Today I Found Out
The Mysterious “Lead Masks Case” on Ghost Theory
O caso das Máscaras de Chumbo (in Portuguese)
Mistério das máscaras de chumbo segue sem solução 54 anos depois (54-year anniversary of Lead Masks Case, in Portuguese)
Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1967
1966, August 17: The Lead Masks Mystery on Anomalies
Alien Abduction Claims in Yorkshire on BBC Inside Out
The mysterious disappearance and death of Zigmund Adamski - murder or Alien abduction? on Strange Outdoors
Alien abduction or KGB? The baffling case of the miner whose body was found on a pile of coal
Alan Godfrey UFO website
The Dyatlov Pass Incident: More Than a UFO Story episode
5 'Boys' Who Never Come Back in the Washington Post
Spooky or Not: The Yuba County Five
Let’s talk about it: Gary Mathias and his four friends
The haunting case of the Mathias Group (Yuba County Five) on Strange Outdoors
'Bizarre as Hell': The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five on Mental Floss
‘Yuba County Five’ uncovers more answers and even more questions about the 5 California men who went missing in 1978 on Podsauce
What Happened to the Yuba County Five? on Historic Mysteries
Yuba County Five Case Analysis | Unexplained Disappearance and Deaths video by Dr. Todd Grande
The Yuba County Five: Terror on the Mountain on The Crime Wire
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