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“Master spy. Someday these are the different things you have to do, and they all follow the same career path. All right, good catch on that one. Oh, yes. Here's a fun one. John Darnton, class of 1960. He was a Pulitzer Prize foreign correspo…”
▶ The Shadow State 37 Secret Societies 21; Andover Connections @ 34:32
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▶ 34:32
Master spy. Someday these are the different things you have to do, and they all follow the same career path. All right, good catch on that one. Oh, yes. Here's a fun one. John Darnton, class of 1960. He was a Pulitzer Prize foreign correspo…
▶ 35:06
to cover Africa out of Lagos, Nigeria. He gets expelled from there by the military government in 1977, and then he is covered the following. The protests in South Africa, the liberation movement in Rhodesia, the guerrilla fighting in Ethiop…
▶ 35:36
He couldn't possibly be CIA. He's the CIA mouth. He's covering all of the CIA coups is what you just said. Exactly. Okay. He's another one of our Forrest Gumps that just shows up in the strangest places. And he got a Pulitzer Prize for all …
▶ 36:12
He wrote some books, too. And of course, that's at the time when Poland was trying to negotiate the exit from the Soviet Union. Yeah, this is just crazy. This is crazy. With the CIA's help, of course. And of course, the CIA's got its bigges…
▶ 36:43
So no coincidence there. All right, so this guy wrote books. And, well, you're not going to believe what he wrote books about. How about cloning? Oh, my gosh. Life extension. Wrote about artificial intelligence all the way back in 2002. Hum…