The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency is a mysterious organisation which has used covert methods to assassinate enemies, influence governments and tip whole countries into revolution – or so countless films, TV series and books would have us believe. How much of it is true? Hugh Wilford, professor of history at California State University, Long Beach, and author of four books, including ‘The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America’, joins Tom and Dominic to discuss.


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