J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 3: Hunting for Spies

J. Edgar Hoover Pt. 3: Hunting for Spies

A new president in the White House meant a new opportunity for a power play. Unfortunately for Hoover, Truman already thought the Bureau was becoming a secret police force. So he checked their power, and created a separate foreign intelligence agency — what will become the CIA. Meanwhile, Hoover was still bent on rooting out communist infiltrators and Soviet spies. Soon enough, he began handing intel over to Congressional committees like HUAC... and to his new friend and ally: a rising senator named Joseph McCarthy. This is the third episode in our six-part crossover special from Conspiracy Theories and Dictators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Colorado Cannibal: Alfred Packer

The Colorado Cannibal: Alfred Packer

A man stumbles out of the Colorado wilderness in 1873. After his traveling party ran out of food in the dead of winter, he’s the only survivor. Except he looks surprisingly well-fed. Alfred Packer’s s...

22 Huhti 39min

The Secret Twin Study: Files Sealed Until 2065

The Secret Twin Study: Files Sealed Until 2065

Does nature or nurture shape who we are? Does our personality come from our genes, or the environment we live in? Countless scientific studies on the subject have been published. But one such study – ...

15 Huhti 50min

James Angleton: The Man Who Broke the CIA From the Inside

James Angleton: The Man Who Broke the CIA From the Inside

James Angleton ran counterintelligence for the CIA for 20 years. His job was to find Soviet spies hiding inside Western intelligence. He was brilliant, obsessive, and almost certainly right that the t...

8 Huhti 51min

False Flags: The Lusitania's Sinking

False Flags: The Lusitania's Sinking

In 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the Lusitania, sinking it off the Irish coast, and killing over 1000 people. The attack devastated the American public, and justified America’s entry into World War ...

1 Huhti 51min

The Cash-Landrum Incident

The Cash-Landrum Incident

Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Vickie’s grandson Colby claimed they encountered a diamond-shaped UFO that spit fire on their way home from B-I-N-G-O. They later suffered symptoms consistent with radi...

25 Maalis 39min

JFK Jr.

JFK Jr.

John F. Kennedy, Jr. was born into the spotlight and remained a public fixture until his untimely death at the age of 38. The NTSB concluded that John crashed his private plane – with his wife, Caroly...

18 Maalis 59min

Painted with Poison: The Radium Girls Cover-Up

Painted with Poison: The Radium Girls Cover-Up

They called them the "ghost girls" – young women who glowed in the dark after painting watches with radium. The company told them it was safe. They knew it wasn't. When the women started dying, the co...

11 Maalis 49min

Priests vs. Presidents: Who Really Orchestrated the Lincoln Assassination?

Priests vs. Presidents: Who Really Orchestrated the Lincoln Assassination?

We’ve all heard the story of John Wilkes Booth firing a bullet in Ford’s Theater… but maybe you haven’t heard the theory he was a puppet, with his strings pulled by a much bigger organization. In the ...

4 Maalis 46min

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