Operation Mockingbird

Operation Mockingbird

In the fallout of the Watergate scandal, a number of the CIA’s black ops operations were revealed to the public in the early 1950s. Among them was a decades old operation that saw CIA agents using journalists, both domestic and foreign, to gather intelligence and spread pro-American propaganda. Parcasters - On Female Criminals we dig into The Everleigh Club, a brothel run in turn of the century Chicago by sisters Ada and Minna. Learn more about this underground den on Female Criminals, listen on Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Fate of Rudolph Hess

The Fate of Rudolph Hess

War criminal and powerful Nazi, Rudolf Hess, was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Nuremberg Trials. In 1987, official reports agreed he died from suicide by hanging himself inside the Spandau Pr...

20 Feb 201942min

Roswell Pt. 2

Roswell Pt. 2

What many thought was a weather balloon turned out to be a top-secret surveillance craft being used to spy on the Soviets. Surviving witnesses have all given different and contradictory versions of wh...

13 Feb 201943min

Roswell

Roswell

One morning in 1947 a rancher discovered debris on his property in Roswell, New Mexico. The debris didn’t look recognizable and the army was quickly called to the scene to declare it as a crashed weat...

6 Feb 201944min

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Pt. 2

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Pt. 2

April 4th, 1968 marks the day one of the most powerful public speakers and civil rights activists was tragically murdered by James Earl Ray. Many people believe, including some of Martin Luther King J...

30 Jan 201940min

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped convict, pleaded guilty to the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison without trial. But years later, Ray claimed he didn...

21 Jan 201945min

Are Cell Phones Safe? Pt. 2

Are Cell Phones Safe? Pt. 2

Pretty much everyone in the United States owns a cell phone today. Yet, they might be detrimental to our health. Some believe they can even be weaponized in the form of lasers, heat rays, and particle...

16 Jan 201944min

Are Cell Phones Safe?

Are Cell Phones Safe?

Cell phones are a ubiquitous element of society today. We use them for just about everything. In many ways, they are beneficial to a person’s well being. We set alarms on our smartphones to wake us up...

9 Jan 201942min

The Manhattan Project Pt. 2

The Manhattan Project Pt. 2

After the U.S. military dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the world roared with questions: what long-term health risks could atomic weapons carry? How did the Soviet Un...

19 Des 201851min

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