Rick Spence is a historian specializing in the history of intelligence agencies, espionage, secret societies, conspiracies, the occult, and military history.
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OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:37 - KGB and CIA
14:54 - Okhrana, Cheka, NKVD
30:26 - CIA spies vs KGB spies
37:02 - Assassinations and mind control
43:56 - Jeffrey Epstein
50:48 - Bohemian Grove
1:02:42 - Occultism
1:13:53 - Nazi party and Thule society
1:54:11 - Protocols of the Elders of Zion
2:27:16 - Charles Manson
2:54:03 - Zodiac Killer
3:04:57 - Illuminati
3:12:21 - Secret societies

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