40. American Utopia, pt. 3: The Italian Job

Let us warmly welcome you back into the American Utopia of Allen Dulles. First, we give a very brief recounting of America’s involvement in the Russian Civil War, and then we fast forward ahead to the 1940s when Dulles was engaging in a power struggle in Washington with Harry Truman while the early CIA dipped its toes in regime change during the 1948 Italian elections and a young congressman from Southern California began cutting his teeth with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Finally, we’ll look at how the Sauron eye of the American deep state fixed its gaze further east with Operation Splinter Factor and take a look at the first rumblings of the stay behind armies that would terrorize Europe in the coming decades.

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