Michael Loewinger
speaker
1,796 appearances
17 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
Michael Loewinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What kind of a dead end job is Leo would spend the next thirty years at FEMA.
He eventually found really satisfying work helping hospitals and medical organizations prepare for floods, wildfires, and hurricanes.
But less than two years after he started getting the hang of his new job, FEMA fell into a decade-long tailspin.
The big shift really didn't come until nineteen eighty.
Ronald Reagan got elected president, and there's a super U-turn from Jimmy Carter.
Who was mostly all about social welfare and Ronald Reagan was more about national defense.
To run FEMA, Reagan picked someone who would stir up a lot of trouble for the agency.
This man.
Army Colonel Louis Chafrida speaking here with a caller on Larry King's radio show.
While Louis Jafrida paid lip service to FEMA's disaster relief mission, he was quietly funneling most of FEMA's budget towards Cold War civil defense.
Leo Bosner.
Mission was really, really going to be to get ready for the big nuclear attack from the Soviet Union.
In the early 80s, Leo started to hear whispers about classified programs at the agency.
Every day on his trip up the elevator at FEMA HQ, he'd ride by a secret fifth floor manned by a security guard.
Mostly he rolled his eyes at all the Cold War theater, wishing FEMA would focus more.
More on preparing Americans for natural disasters, but he still wondered, what were they doing in there?
The majority of its funding graf and about a third of its workforce was actually hidden in the nation's classified black budget, the special budget that Congress oversees that protects our most secret programs and capabilities.
And FEMA on a daily basis is in charge of tracking the whereabouts of everyone in
In the presidential line of succession, so that in the event of a nuclear war.
it knows where all of those people are, how to get them to secure relocation sites like the Mount Weather bunker, and who would be best positioned to be the person who takes over as president of the United States in the event of a nuclear war.
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