Episode 897 • • 2:48:53 - 2:51:18
897: Douchebag Disneyland
CIA Declassified Files, Syrian Pipeline History
Declassified CIA documents from 1983 reveal that U.S. interests in the Middle East were heavily tied to the Syrian closure of the Iraqi pipeline. The memo suggests that the U.S. needed to use "real muscle" against Hafez al-Assad to protect regional resource transport.