Chet gets 22 CIA gadgets and plots and has to call each one: real or fake. 14 are real. A cat wired with a microphone and an antenna running down its tail. A robotic dragonfly. A pistol that fired frozen shellfish toxin, held up on camera by Senator Frank Church in 1975. A wetsuit dusted with skin fungus meant as a gift for Fidel Castro. Pigeons flying camera missions over Washington. We start with the Church Committee, the Senate investigation that forced all of it into public record, then work through the real operations: the documented plots against Castro, the poison flown to the Congo for Patrice Lumumba, the suicide pin U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers carried, and Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA safehouse where agents dosed men with LSD and watched through a two-way mirror. Sourced from the Church Committee report, declassified memos, and CIA Museum records.
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