SNAFU with Ed Helms

Sep 04 2024 24 ep. 38 mins 3.4k
SNAFU with Ed Helms Podcast artwork

Hosted by Ed Helms, SNAFU is a podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. This is Season 2: MEDBURG. The story of a daring heist that exposed a colossal FBI SNAFU.

  History  True Crime
RSS feed Share
Copy RSS


Subscribe on Podcast Addict


The FBI and Indigenous Movements with Nick Estes

Sep 04 2024 51 mins  
COINTELPRO was shut down in 1971, and J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972. But the agency's dirty tricks continued in the years directly following the Media Burglary. Nowhere is this more evident than in the FBI's interactions with the American Indian Movement. Scholar, historian, and podcast host Nick Estes joins SNAFU to talk about how COINTELPRO and Hoover's legacy permeated the FBI, f

Surveillance Now & Then with Loch Johnson

Aug 28 2024 46 mins  
Former Church Committee Staffer Loch Johnson helps us dig deeper into the Church Committee Hearings to cover the appalling findings we didn't get to in Episode 7 of our season. Then, he takes us straight through to present day surveillance, where we try to answer the question: Where is the right balance between citizen rights and national security? Do we even have any privacy left

8. Statute of Limitations

Aug 21 2024 39 mins  
The FBI tries to clean up its act, but will all those lessons learned later be… forgotten? Plus, the legacy of the Media Burglary.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

7. The 'Do Not File' File

Aug 14 2024 51 mins  
Journalist Carl Stern stumbles upon a single, curious codeword in the burglarized documents: COINTELPRO. As shocking revelations about the FBI come to fruition, Congress forms the Church Committee to investigate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6. Tin, Rubber, and Oil

Aug 07 2024 51 mins  
A mole, a raid, and a war on trial. The Camden 28 make national headlines. But will their trial jeopardize the identities of the Media burglars?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

5. G-Men Are Coming to Town

Jul 31 2024 45 mins  
The FBI hunts the burglars, who suddenly have a window into J. Edgar Hoover's most twisted and sinister operations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

4. The Heist of the Century

Jul 24 2024 33 mins  
As Ali and Frazier go head-to-head in The Fight of the Century, Bill Davidon and his team aim to pull off the heist of the century. But at what cost?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3. The Girl from Hartford

Jul 17 2024 45 mins  
With the team assembled, the burglars begin staking out a small FBI satellite office in Media Pennsylvania. And Bonnie Raines takes a big risk. To read more about the FBI’s history, check out Daniel Chard’s book, Nixon’s War at Home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2. Want to Come to a Party?

Jul 10 2024 38 mins  
It’s 1970 when John and Bonnie Raines get a call from their friend and fellow activist, Bill Davidon. He suspects something is very wrong with the FBI, and plans to do the unthinkable: break into an FBI office to prove it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

1. The Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI

Jul 10 2024 31 mins  
In March 1971, Washington Post reporter Betty Medsger receives a mysterious envelope full of classified documents. Soon, what's inside will change the way America sees the FBI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.