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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #253: The Hidden World Of The Finders | John Brisson
Description: The mid-1980s were a weird time when politics and child trafficking started to be mentioned in the same breath from time to time. The Franklin operation was in full swing between Omaha and D.C., the Iran-Contra affair was dragging in unusual stories about where some of the money was coming from, the McMartin Preschool scandal was breaking in Southern California, and an unusual group appeared on the scene called The Finders that had ties to intelligence agencies but looked and operated much like a cult.
John Brisson has been digging into this story for years as...