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Sep 2023
20m 55s

Episode 8.5

Paul Kendrick
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The story of the early years of the American Central Intelligence Agency and it most important director Allan Dulles.  The CIA go on from a disappointing start during the Korean War to became the oversea convert operations agency for the American Government but some of its actions would latter be questioned.

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