Radio War Nerd EP164—Garibaldi in Latin America + Spy Scandals from MH-CHAOS to Integrity Initiative

Recorded: January 8, 2019 BUENOS AIRES—The War Nerd recovers the little-known (in the Anglo world at least) story of young Garibaldi's revolutionary exploits in South America, when he fought in the Ragamuffin War for the breakaway Piratini Republic against the newly-independent Brazil Empire . . . At 59:00 Ames talks about the recent scandal over the British intelligence-backed Integrity Initiative's covert propaganda operation using friendly media figures to target westerners critical of the new Cold War hysteria, including UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. New revelations about Integrity Initiative show that the operation has already moved in the US, and one of its hired speakers has already attacked both the War Nerd and Ames, as well as having smeared previous RWN guests Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal. To give this domestic spy scandal story some context, Ames recovers the history of the CIA's illegal domestic spy operation, MH-CHAOS, which began targeting Ramparts magazine and eventually expanded to spying on and disrupting hundreds of thousands of antiwar Americans. The program ended when Seymour Hersh exposed it in 1974, leading to the creation of the Church Committee. . . Reading: New Documents Reveal a Cover British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling in American Politics