"The History of the Intelligence State" Mike Benz lecture at Hillsdale College (Sept 2024)

An essential 40 min lecture on the origin story of The Blob. Thanks to
Hillsdale for a beautiful event. Timestamps:
Timestamps:
1:19: The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare
11:20: NSC 10/2 and the Plausible Deniability Doctrine
15:08: Diplomacy Thru Duplicity
16:04: Smith-Mundt Act, The CIA Media Empire
19:40: The Department of Dirty Tricks
20:36: The CIA As Servant Of The State Department
23:02: 1789-1948 pre-history
29:54: 1948-1983
37:31: I learn there’s 2 mins left on the clock & need to summarize the post-1983 structural changes and post-2016 operational changes in like 3 mins 😂

I only made it a third of the way thru the lecture! 😩
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