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Episode 51: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 11)
🕑 Added 2022-06-17 16:29:50 +0000 UTCAs a happy coincidence, we recorded this around on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the arrest of the Plumbers. We talk about the deep politics of Watergate in this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. His work on Watergate had a big influence on my own view of Watergate, a subject I dedicate two whole chapters to in American Exception--now days away from its official publication!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
Comments
Dogface Reilly
The audio quality Is so bad I had great difficulty understanding Peterdale Scott. You need to put him on a Lavalier microphone
Johnny Case
An astonishing and unique view of Nixon's War on Drugs: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Heroin-Coup-Intelligence-International/dp/1634240189/ref=sr_1_1?crid=H2140XWD8LFN&keywords=the+great+heroin+coup&qid=1655829919&sprefix=the+great+heroin+coup%2Caps%2C34&sr=8-1
Zachary White
curious on what 1968 CFR memo he’s talking about, on need to lower the profile of covert operations. 68 had a few zingers
