Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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As the Cold War turns Central America into a battlefield of spies and sabotage, a Panamanian soldier trained by Mossad, the DEA, and Castro’s Cuba becomes the right-hand man to dictator Manuel Noriega and must survive the covert war launched by the very intelligence networks that created him.

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OUTLINE
00:00 - Panama during the Cold War
05:31 - Fidel Castro's personal Mossad agent
12:20 - How Manuel Noriega became a CIA asset
19:45 - CIA helped fund Fidel Castro
28:31 - Manuel Noriega & the drug trade
38:22 - Manuel Noriega & George HW Bush's relationship
41:24 - Venesuela
50:51 - China is taking over Latin America
55:55 - Graham Linehan, free speech & the Twitter files
01:05:52 - people live in different realities
01:09:09 - Tucker Carlson's new documentary
01:18:24 - intelligence agencies are more evil than you think
01:25:24 - Manuel Noriega's best-kept secret
01:33:17 - life in Cuba & "dodgy boxes"
01:40:29 - ex-CIA agent on Charlie Kirk shooting
02:02:15 - Gary Webb & CIA assassinations
02:07:54 - money laundering in Panama
02:16:27 - Leaked DEA files on Manuel Noriega