The Peculiar Truth about JFK’s Spy Mistress
August 1963: Acting on orders from Attorney General Robert Kennedy, men from the US Justice Department went to a home in Arlington, VA. They then surreptitiously deported a foreign national to East Germany behind the Iron Curtain. She was a 27-year-old mother married to a German military officer, and she worked in Washington, DC. Congress was secretly warned not to look into the deportation because it impacted national security. The matter remained under wraps for years. The
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The Peculiar Truth about the Art Thief Rocker
Milton, MA, 1963: The Forbes House Museum was home to rare antiques including Japanese swords. The gallery didn’t take security seriously. Then someone made off with several expensive Asian artworks including rare Japanese swords. The police had no suspects. With that, an 18-year-old local man named Myles Connor began a life of crime as a notorious art thief… while also being the frontman for a New England rock and roll band. As a teenager in the late 50s and early 60s, Myles
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The Peculiar Truth about Jackie Chan’s Parents
1947: The Japanese inflamed a Civil War in China. Communists were on the verge of victory over the Chinese Nationalists. Fang Daolong was a Nationalist and a former spy for an intelligence bureau. At the time of the outbreak, he had two sons and a dying wife. He procured opium to alleviate his wife’s pain and eventually lost his life’s savings trying to spare her. She died anyway. Fang’s life was in peril from Communists. He narrowly avoided assassination twice. So he abandon
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The Peculiar Truth about Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
In the early 70s, animated cartoon shows dominated the big three American TV networks every Saturday morning. A few live action programs like HR Pufnstuf and The Banana Splits stood out, too. For adults, spy movies and TV series like the James Bond films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. were all the rage in that era. So were music-based shows like The Monkees and The Partridge Family . Two men with television experience but no history in Saturday morning programming combined al
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