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1. My Friend Michael

May 11, 2020 · 44 min

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LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 2011:

The Scorpions’ song “Wind of Change” became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War. But decades later, New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor from a trusted source: the Scorpions didn’t write the song. The CIA did.

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