Snafu Season 2: Episode 2: Want to come to a party?
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The official case name in the FBI. In this episode, we hear about the team behind this courageous act. How did it all come together? And how did they stay anonymous for decades afterwards? The opening scene of this episode is one of my favorite moments in the entire Snafu series. It's when the great Washington Post journalist Betty Metzger finds out at a casual dinner party. That the people who perpetrated this insane burglary are actually her dear friends. It's an incredible reveal. This is Snafu Season T, Episode Two. Wanna come to a party? Last time on Snafu
Heavyweight Boxers Joe Frazier and Mohammed Ali meet in New York's Madison Square Garden Monday night.
There was a huge stack of mail, but this one stood out because of the return address, which was Liberty Publications Media, Pennsylvania.
As long as I'm director of the FBI It will continue. to maintain its high and impartial standards of investigation.
Last month, burglars hit an FBI resident office and took files which subsequently have been made public.
The FBI entered my life very soon after that.
Reporter Betty Medzger now lived in San Francisco. Two decades had passed since she first received an envelope from a mysterious group called the Citizens Commission to investigate the FBI. That envelope contained 14 top secret FBI files showing America's beloved G-men were surveilling American citizens, with the goal of, quote, enhancing paranoia. She still had no idea who sent her those files that led to her bombshell reporting. She had no idea about the incredible heists that pried them out of the FBI's hands, and she might not have ever known these things were it not for one fateful evening in nineteen eighty nine. Betty was taking a trip back to her old stomping grounds, Philadelphia.
There were a number of people professionally and personally who were very important to me and I hadn't seen them in a long time. Like
John and Bonnie Raines, a young couple she'd known from her days reporting on religion for the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, And I called and said I was going to be in town. Could we get together? And they immediately invited me to come to their home for dinner that Friday night. And I was very much looking forward to it.
When Betty first met them, Bonnie was a young mother, juggling her grad school studies and education, her job running a daycare, and her three children. Her husband John was a young Methodist minister who taught religion at Temple University. He was a gifted speaker, and he knew it. Some might say he talked a little too much. Betty would soon learn how true that was.
We hadn't seen each other in a very long time. We talked for quite a while and had uh a couple glasses of wine, catching each other up on the the last decade of our lives. And at some point in the the middle of of dinner, their youngest child came in.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:49
2
What is the premise of the “Want to Come to a Party?” episode and who are the main players?
5:49–12:44
3
How did Betty Metzger first learn about the Citizens Commission’s secret FBI files?
12:44–19:31
4
What motivated Bill Davidon to investigate FBI surveillance of the peace movement?
19:31–35:15
5
How did Bill Davidon’s “party” invitation become a covert plan to burglarize an FBI office?
35:15–41:40