EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)
The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.
Because the world is weird.
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SECTIONS
- 02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
- 03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
- 07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
- 08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
- 14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
- 17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
- 21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
- 23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
- 25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
- 29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
- 32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
- 37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
- 38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts
- Music by Fanette Ronjat
MORE INFO
- Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"
- "Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper
- Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine
- The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society
- The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
- Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times
- Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don
- Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo
- Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
- James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com
- Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree
- The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
- The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime
- 200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America
- Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
- 30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking
- European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’
- The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO
- Martín Almada on Right Livelihood
- How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC
- Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections
- The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
- Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams
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