The second season of Alphabet Boys, the investigative podcast series that takes listeners into the alphabet of government agencies such as the FBI, CIA, DEA, and ATF, reveals an international arms-trafficking conspiracy that wraps them all up into a single story. Reported and hosted by investigative journalist Trevor Aaronson, it draws from hours of undercover recordings and hundreds of pages of internal U.S. government reports.
“Season two of Alphabet Boys goes behind the scenes of a border-hopping arms-trafficking conspiracy involving a mysterious international businessman, a government minister in Romania, an Italian politician, and revolutionaries with the FARC in Colombia,” Aaronson says. “It’s a high-wire act that mixes up in the DEA, the FBI, and the CIA in a case that is as intriguing as it is absurd.” Aaronson previously hosted the podcasts American ISIS on Audible and “High Rollers,” the second season of Campside Media’s Chameleon series.
Told as a single narrative over 10 episodes, “Alphabet Boys: Up in Arms” – a joint production of iHeartPodcasts and Western Sound – is a spy thriller that reveals how aggressive federal law enforcement agents can find themselves investigating the assets of other federal agencies — creating an alphabet soup in which it’s hard to determine who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy. It tells the story of how Romanian-American businessman Flaviu Georgescu was approached by a Colombian revolutionary interested in purchasing millions of dollars in military-grade weapons. Georgescu, a longtime cooperator with the FBI, called the CIA to report the arms deal. There was just one problem: Georgescu was under investigation by the DEA, whose agents didn’t know about his call to the CIA.
Western Sound founder and Alphabet Boys co-creator Ben Adair calls the story they uncovered a “total mindbender” that offers a surprising look at law enforcement.
“Trevor’s reporting shows how federal law enforcement seems to take its cues much more from Reno 911! than any Hollywood spy thriller or police procedures,” Adair says. “And yet, their misfiring jokes and gross incompetence have real-world consequences for anyone caught up in their comedy of errors.”
Alphabet Boys’ first season, titled “Trojan Horse,” revealed how the FBI infiltrated and undermined the racial justice movement during the summer of 2020. Season two premieres today (June 26), with new episodes launching every Monday and Thursday through July 27.
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