Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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I think six, yeah.
So he
Yeah, it's natural to start asking questions when a question that would occur to anybody, somebody who just heard a five-minute synopsis of the story, and they're from Mars, and they have never heard any of it before.
You tell them the short little story, a five-minute version of it that I just told you, and the first thing they're going to ask is,
Well, what did he mean when he said that Epstein belonged to intelligence?
What's going on there?
And you can't get a journalist to ask that question.
And so it's natural for us to start wondering why that is.
Well,
Yeah, you know, one of the things that we go back to the 1980s, I mean, it's just such a fascinating time because in the Iran-Contra deal, Mike Benz likes to point this out and he's great on all of the Epstein stuff in the 80s and just a lot of the intelligence shenanigans in general going on back then is that, you know, it really provides a window into the question you're asking right now.
Who runs the world?
Like who's actually in charge of everything that's going on?
How is power structured and how does it operate really, you know, in the world?
And if you go back to the Church and Pike committee hearings and then you roll into the Carter administration where he brings Admiral Stansfield Turner in to run the CIA and basically gives him a directive to pare down the agency's operational commitments and the things that it does in the field, start focusing more on what Truman thought he was getting himself into, which was a batch of analysts to help keep the president informed as he made decisions.
And by all accounts, as far as I know, Admiral Turner tried to do that job with some enthusiasm.
You get to the point where by the 1980s, the CIA's ability to operate is under a lot of scrutiny and limited in ways that it never had been before.
I mean, you go back to the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and I mean, they were just cowboys.
They're
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