Gabriel Gatehouse

So

Not only were a lot of documents declassified from the CIA station during all the inquiries and investigations into the Kennedy assassination, but also this guy.

And this was one of the leads that we really followed up in the podcast, Winston Scott.

He's so annoyed that the CIA is saying that he missed Oswald that he writes a memoir about

about his time as Mexico City Station.

And when he dies unexpectedly in 1971, the first thing the CIA does is they send their chief of counterintelligence, James Angleton, to Mexico City to wrestle this manuscript out of the hands of Winston Scott's shell-shocked widow.

So this... I figured, you know, this guy...

was in charge, if somebody from the CIA had poisoned an English goalkeeper, he probably knew about it.

Well, maybe he wrote about it in his memoir.

And so a whole part of the podcast is us trying to get hold of this document, which has been confiscated by the CIA to see if there's any clues in there.

One of the things I really wanted to look into was, you know, was there any evidence of the CIA or indeed other intelligence agencies, the KGB, you know, meddling in actual matches, football matches or sporting events to try and affect the outcome?

There is a lot of evidence, as you said, Gordon, about the Olympics, and both the KGB and the CIA were at it.

But it seemed to me, at least from the historical record, that what they were mostly after was access.

They wanted access to people who lived behind the Iron Curtain, who would be coming out to, e.g., the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where Wynne Scott sent one of his agents to infiltrate them there.

But his job essentially, I think...

was to recruit agents, not to fix the 100 meters.

So I was really, really trying to find evidence that the CIA ever actually meddled in a sporting event in the outcome.

So there is this famous case of the World Cup eight years later, 78, in Argentina.

And so Argentina are the hosts.

A bit like Brazil, they really, really want to win it.