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A Walkman and a Wire

Things That Go Boom by PRX

Feb 17, 202532:29Government & Organizations

Initially assigned to $100 million bank failure investigations, Mike German’s FBI career took a pivotal turn in 1992, when he went undercover to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups in LA. The years that followed gave him a front-...

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A Walkman and a Wire is an episode from Things That Go Boom by PRX. Initially assigned to $100 million bank failure investigations, Mike German’s FBI career took a pivotal turn in 1992, when he went undercover to infiltrate neo-Nazi groups...

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Published Feb 17, 2025, 32:29 long, audio available.

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