Binge Now: Alphabet Boys Season 2
“Up in Arms,” the second season of the hit podcast series, tells the story of an undercover investigation that wraps up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI.
The second season of “Alphabet Boys,” my documentary podcast from Western Sound and iHeartPodcasts, reveals an international arms-trafficking conspiracy that wraps up the DEA, the CIA, and the FBI in a single case.
The tenth and final episode of “Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms” was released today, making the entire second season available to binge now.
You can find “Alphabet Boys” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Sticher, Amazon Music, Pandora, or wherever you usually listen.
Reported and hosted by investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson, “Alphabet Boys” is a multi-season narrative podcast that brings listeners inside the world of America’s alphabet agencies, such as the FBI, CIA, DEA, and ATF. The podcast dives into cases that raise a common question: Are federal agents and their informants catching bad guys or creating them?
Drawing from hours of undercover recordings and hundreds of pages of internal U.S. government reports, “Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms” tells the story of how Romanian-American businessman Flaviu Georgescu was approached by a Colombian revolutionary interested in purchasing millions of dollars in military-grade weapons. Georgescu, a longtime cooperator with the FBI, called the CIA to report the arms deal. There was just one problem: Georgescu was under investigation by the DEA, whose agents didn’t know about his call to the CIA.
Told as a single narrative over 10 episodes, “Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms” is a spy thriller that reveals how aggressive federal law enforcement agents can find themselves investigating the assets of other federal agencies — creating an alphabet soup in which it’s hard to determine who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy.
You can learn more about “Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms” in The Intercept, Podcast Geek, Crawlspace, and Underworld.
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