Ep.008 - Lies and Shadows: Is 'The Directorate' Real?

SHOW NOTES ||| Threats to the US, 1898 - 1905: Spanish-American War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War), 2nd Boer War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War), Boxer Rebellion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Rebellion), Philippine Insurrection (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War), Baltimore Incident (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_crisis), Russo-Japanese War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War) ||| Walter Bosley - http://empireofthewheel.blogspot.com/ | 'Cora Stanton' (murder victim) as Ethel 'Etta' Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Place) girlfriend/wife of Harry Longabaugh/'Sundance Kid' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundance_Kid) | 'The Arrangement': Butch, Sundance and Etta go to Argentina, buy 15,000acre ranch in Cholila, Chubut Province, Argentina...c.100 miles from San Carlos de Bariloche (German colony, suspected Nazi refuge); 198km - 40 hours via walking, 11 hours by bicycle; Chilean border | Unknown fate of Butch, Sundance and Etta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgF3MRxpx2E | Q: If Etta Place was some kind of US intelligence agent...who was running her? | Divergence from Bosley: US Secret Service only formally assigned to counterespionage in 1915: https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history/events/ | Allan Pinkerton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton; ***Assassinated (1884)?; *** Significant change in Pinkerton operations under his brother Robert, incl dismissing all women detectives (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7dbhhFkog) || Culper Spy Ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culper_Ring | Benjamin Tallmadge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tallmadge | American Black Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber | Booz, Allan, Hamilton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton || William J. Donovan - MajGen (USA); first Head of OSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services); Ambassador to Thailand, - Medal of Honor, WW1, - "Part-time spy"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Donovan ||| https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/michaelacessna