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Molly Conger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2355 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

He would come back to work late at night to return the documents he'd stolen, and no one questioned why a junior employee was opening the vault at 4 a.m. He made deliveries to secure CIA sites without having the proper clearance to enter them. And on one occasion, he wandered into a CIA code room, picked up a clipboard, and was flipping through the pages before someone politely asked him to leave.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Employees in the vault were supposed to destroy the code cards used in the teletype machine at the end of each workday. Boyce says they just tossed the cards in a canvas bag in the corner and they used the document destruction blender to make Mai Tais with the Bacardi that they kept hidden behind the cryptography machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Employees in the vault were supposed to destroy the code cards used in the teletype machine at the end of each workday. Boyce says they just tossed the cards in a canvas bag in the corner and they used the document destruction blender to make Mai Tais with the Bacardi that they kept hidden behind the cryptography machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Employees in the vault were supposed to destroy the code cards used in the teletype machine at the end of each workday. Boyce says they just tossed the cards in a canvas bag in the corner and they used the document destruction blender to make Mai Tais with the Bacardi that they kept hidden behind the cryptography machines.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

He claims it was common for the vault to receive transmissions from Langley that weren't actually meant for them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

He claims it was common for the vault to receive transmissions from Langley that weren't actually meant for them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

He claims it was common for the vault to receive transmissions from Langley that weren't actually meant for them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Misdirected communications, these CIA cables that had nothing to do with TRW or their work with the agency, but no one really cared and there was no clear accountability process for ensuring that these top secret CIA documents that had been sent to them by mistake were actually destroyed. And these are the documents that Boyce stole.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Misdirected communications, these CIA cables that had nothing to do with TRW or their work with the agency, but no one really cared and there was no clear accountability process for ensuring that these top secret CIA documents that had been sent to them by mistake were actually destroyed. And these are the documents that Boyce stole.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Misdirected communications, these CIA cables that had nothing to do with TRW or their work with the agency, but no one really cared and there was no clear accountability process for ensuring that these top secret CIA documents that had been sent to them by mistake were actually destroyed. And these are the documents that Boyce stole.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Okay, I know, Frank's not even in this part, but I have to tell you just a little bit about the 1975 constitutional crisis in Australia. I know, I know, this is an even more egregious digression than the history of Rhodesia, but look at the show art. It's not just cool to look at. We are living on my red string board, and I've got to put this pushpin in somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Okay, I know, Frank's not even in this part, but I have to tell you just a little bit about the 1975 constitutional crisis in Australia. I know, I know, this is an even more egregious digression than the history of Rhodesia, but look at the show art. It's not just cool to look at. We are living on my red string board, and I've got to put this pushpin in somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Okay, I know, Frank's not even in this part, but I have to tell you just a little bit about the 1975 constitutional crisis in Australia. I know, I know, this is an even more egregious digression than the history of Rhodesia, but look at the show art. It's not just cool to look at. We are living on my red string board, and I've got to put this pushpin in somewhere.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Now, I know even less about Australia than I know about the decolonization of Africa in the 20th century. Which is to say, like, not very much. I think they still have the queen? I guess it's the king now. Did they have to print new money after the queen died? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Now, I know even less about Australia than I know about the decolonization of Africa in the 20th century. Which is to say, like, not very much. I think they still have the queen? I guess it's the king now. Did they have to print new money after the queen died? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

Now, I know even less about Australia than I know about the decolonization of Africa in the 20th century. Which is to say, like, not very much. I think they still have the queen? I guess it's the king now. Did they have to print new money after the queen died? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

But I was delighted to discover that CIA meddling in an Australian political crisis was even a possibility. How intriguing. You know, I know they like to keep it south of the equator, but I thought that was just a Western Hemisphere thing. Now, of course, of course, the United States government maintains that the CIA had no role in pushing Prime Minister Gough Whitlam out of office in 1975.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

But I was delighted to discover that CIA meddling in an Australian political crisis was even a possibility. How intriguing. You know, I know they like to keep it south of the equator, but I thought that was just a Western Hemisphere thing. Now, of course, of course, the United States government maintains that the CIA had no role in pushing Prime Minister Gough Whitlam out of office in 1975.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

But I was delighted to discover that CIA meddling in an Australian political crisis was even a possibility. How intriguing. You know, I know they like to keep it south of the equator, but I thought that was just a Western Hemisphere thing. Now, of course, of course, the United States government maintains that the CIA had no role in pushing Prime Minister Gough Whitlam out of office in 1975.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Weird Little Guys

But Christopher Boyce went to prison claiming otherwise. In the 70s, Gough Whitlam was the head of the Australian Labor Party, and his administration was fairly socially progressive. He was also considering closing Pine Gap, a U.S. signals intelligence surveillance base in central Australia run by the CIA.