Introducing Deep Cover

Marijuana, motorcycles, and mayhem. Deep Cover is the true story of an FBI agent in Detroit who goes undercover in an outlaw motorcycle gang and makes a series of bizarre discoveries that inadvertently lead to the US invasion of foreign country. Hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jake Halpern. Launching July 13th.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. About a year ago, I heard about this guy,
a former FBI agent named Ned Timmins, and Ned he
had this crazy story I almost couldn't believe. It went
something like this back in the eighties and Ned was

(00:36):
a rookie at the FBI, and one night he arrests
a fugitive at this biker bar and I just lean
up to his ear and said, Toby FBI, and Nin
he goes, fuck you. Turns out this guy, Toby, has
some connections in the criminal underworld, and that's Ned's in.
He goes undercover with a biker gang, learns how to

(00:57):
ride a Harley, grows a Fu Manchu mustache, and well
starts spending a lot of time with his new buddies.
You don't make progress unless you're dealing with sociopath I think,
homicidal crazy people. Ned's wife at the time was also
an FBI agent, and she started to worry, will you

(01:18):
hang around that long with a bunch of bad guys
fitting in with them? Your behavior is going to change
and where you draw the line changes. But this was
just the beginning. Ned tells me he would go on
to live his double life for years and eventually uncover
a vast criminal conspiracy. It involved celebrities, the CIA, a

(01:40):
dictator down in Central America. Not just that ultimately it
leads to a war, I mean a full scale US invasion.
We're going to work this upbright to the top. Our
objective is to work up and kill the head of
the snake. Skeptical here, so is I. And then I
started doing a little detective work of my own. I'm

(02:02):
Jake Albern and this is deep Cover, a show about drugs, motorcycles,
an FBI agent, and a dictator with a machette. Well,
you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to realize that
we stumbled up on something that was large and scale
and that it was international. The story was way too

(02:23):
big for the FEDS. I would have considered them very
polished executives that they just happened to ultimately be involved
in smuggling. You could smell the money, there was so
much of it. Money has a very distinct owner, and
there was just so much of it you could smell it.
Terrible characters or are stock and trade. It's the criminals
who know how to get around the law and get

(02:45):
around all of the systems who can help us do
our job. You know, you don't have to choose that path.
You don't have to choose to work a case in
that way. You don't have to choose to go deep cover.
You are who you are. You're just an FBI agent,
You're not God. At any time, I could have gone
to my bosses and said I'm done and they would

(03:08):
have respected that. Why didn't you, pink as I want
to make the case deep Cover brought to you by
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