The Starfighter & the Condor (WIW 7)

EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7)

The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror. 

Because the world is weird.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
2. 03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
3. 07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
4. 08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
5. 14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
6. 17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
7. 21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
8. 23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
9. 25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
10. 29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
11. 32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
12. 37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
13. 38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO

• Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker"
• "Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper
• Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine
• The Rise and Spread of Japan’s Black Dragon Secret Society
• The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
• Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times
• Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don
• Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star’s kamikaze attack in Tokyo
• Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka
• James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com
• Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master’s Degree
• The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read
• The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime
• 200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America
• Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America
• 30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking
• European spies sought lessons from dictators’ brutal ‘Operation Condor’
• The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO
• Martín Almada on Right Livelihood
• How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC
• Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections
• The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
• Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams

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