Robert is joined again by Paul F. Tompkins to continue to discuss Synanon.

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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

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Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!

Sources:
Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo

Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times

Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html

50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night

Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME

Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident

The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS

Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum

friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa

Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices

118979704.pdf

Portugal, declassified – POLITICO

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

SalazarandBritish.pdf

Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957

Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word                     

Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995

Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray!
Sources: <a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/salazar.htm" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/salazar.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2YkJmB3hAqPq2jGdw1N1x0">Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/28/archives/antonio-salazar-a-quiet-autocrat-who-held-power-in-portugal-for-40.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/28/archives/antonio-salazar-a-quiet-autocrat-who-held-power-in-portugal-for-40.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3uJRPwR2Vp5Ut2qR354dzF">Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times</a>
<a href="https://www.portugalresident.com/did-salazar-have-a-love-life-part-2/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.portugalresident.com/did-salazar-have-a-love-life-part-2/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2IiMcCfbhyjgoH1ba43BcF">Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 &ndash; Portugal Resident</a>
<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ptNkBBcHDUNWDuH1ncL4g">https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html</a>
<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1ptNkBBcHDUNWDuH1ncL4g">50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night</a>
<a href="https://time.com/archive/6632897/portugal-end-of-the-salazar-era/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://time.com/archive/6632897/portugal-end-of-the-salazar-era/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FEqEZsJEBoTEhJFRjyZlo">Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME</a>
<a href="https://www.portugalresident.com/portugals-secret-police/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.portugalresident.com/portugals-secret-police/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0AejJVyXbC_GvZuQHq9T0e">Portugal&rsquo;s secret police &ndash; Portugal Resident</a>
<a href="https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/projeto/secretPOL" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/projeto/secretPOL&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ypgvYOP0PQREY7fekT9HC">The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS</a>
<a href="https://www.portugal.com/history-and-culture/portugals-dictatorship-salazars-estado-novo/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.portugal.com/history-and-culture/portugals-dictatorship-salazars-estado-novo/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ChasUo-zQkd5hf5GZGwqY">Portugal&rsquo;s Dictatorship: Salazar&rsquo;s Estado Novo - Portugal.com</a>
<a href="https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2HS_fBizNS5r6xQoKpygUB">Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558&ndash;1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547</a>
<a href="https://www.newsmuseum.pt/en/na-frente/war-tears-estado-novo-down" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.newsmuseum.pt/en/na-frente/war-tears-estado-novo-down&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Zj1xtE1cywhTP-2bYUbkD">The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum</a>
<a href="https://drexel.edu/~/media/files/histpol/publications/friedheim_pub%20-%20salazar%20-%20leaders%20of%20europe%201995.ashx" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drexel.edu/~/media/files/histpol/publications/friedheim_pub%2520-%2520salazar%2520-%2520leaders%2520of%2520europe%25201995.ashx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0fSOiPBd9hu8oxYfpMPBuD">friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx</a>
<a href="https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2FFPa-6d3evmyv-uznTRoj">Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995</a>
<a href="https://www.genocidewatchblog.com/post/colonialism-and-genocide-in-portuguese-africa" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.genocidewatchblog.com/post/colonialism-and-genocide-in-portuguese-africa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1P5wsYyMjResTNtiVw45BR">Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa</a>
<a href="https://globalvoices.org/2021/10/12/three-graphics-that-explain-portuguese-colonialism/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://globalvoices.org/2021/10/12/three-graphics-that-explain-portuguese-colonialism/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2TD1erJ05ybz0DDgSYn7kG">Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism &middot; Global Voices</a>
<a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/07/05/118979704.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&amp;ip=0" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/07/05/118979704.pdf?pdf_redirect%3Dtrue%26ip%3D0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1C9_lQb9lEdapFUm87irp2">118979704.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-declassified-elections-news/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-declassified-elections-news/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw34oJOehlwhTgQqfBG1aM_J">Portugal, declassified &ndash; POLITICO</a>
<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn=main;view=fulltext" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn%3Dmain;view%3Dfulltext&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FsVzVfjVUUuEEsGgDM8Tv">Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957</a>
<a href="https://www.bhsportugal.org/uploads/fotos_artigos/files/SalazarandBritish.pdf" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bhsportugal.org/uploads/fotos_artigos/files/SalazarandBritish.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wxX3YPADELtJpTnjaoidL">SalazarandBritish.pdf</a>
<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn=main;view=fulltext" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn%3Dmain;view%3Dfulltext&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0FsVzVfjVUUuEEsGgDM8Tv">Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957</a>
<a href="https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2HS_fBizNS5r6xQoKpygUB">Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558&ndash;1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547</a>
<a href="https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2FFPa-6d3evmyv-uznTRoj">Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995</a>
<a href="https://newafricanmagazine.com/16585/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newafricanmagazine.com/16585/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752789090819000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0--_si_Dzqg-73wBEibO0b">Fran&ccedil;afrique: A brief history of a scandalous word</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Part Two: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

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Robert sits down with with  Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it.

(2 Part Series)

Robert sits down with with &nbsp;Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it.
(2 Part Series)

Part One: Antonio Salazar: The Smartest Fascist Dictator

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/87487526-56df-411e-8242-b31b00232807/transcript

World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story.

World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story.

 Part Four: Adolf Eichmann: Mr. Holocaust Himself

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/5e4185d3-7fd9-4a5e-8e6f-b315016f6a59/transcript

Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

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