Whiskey Rebellion 064: Foreign Agents

Recent headlines that former Trump advisor Carter Page and graduate student Maria Butina have illegally acted as Russian foreign agents have put the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act in the spotlight. Frank and David talk about foreign agents in American history, including:

• How a foreign agent differs from a diplomat and a spy
• How Citizen Genet tried to get Americans to suppor the French Revolution
• How German agents tried to keep Americans out of World War I and II, including inflitrating America First

Last Drops

Frank: Color footage of Ted Williams' last at bat

David: Atlantic article in support of microfilm