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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my w
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"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over"

- John Perkins

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