The CIA Misplaced Forty Million In Gold

About this episode

The episode discusses various news topics including a former CIA official accused of stashing $40 million in gold bars and the complexities of public trust in institutions.

Send us Fan Mail A missile “ceasefire” that still trades fire. A voting system people don’t trust. A former CIA official accused of stashing $40 million in gold bars. If you’ve felt like the news is a stack of unrelated scandals, we try to show the wiring underneath it all: incentives, power, and what happens when institutions expect the public to stop asking questions. We open with a clear-eyed Iran update, including the Strait of Hormuz, drone threats, and why fractured chains of com...

People in this episode

Host: Taylor Johnatakis

Topics covered

• CIA
• gold bars
• Iran update
• voting system
• news scandals
• public trust

Keywords

• CIA
• gold
• Iran
• voting
• news
• scandals
• public trust

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CIA

Places: Iran, Strait of Hormuz

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