One Piece of the Puzzle
Meine obliged, and the satisfied visitor (most likely in a trench coat and hat) bid him a good day without even stepping into the threshold of Meine’s room. So, during the concert, he did what he had been asked to do. This minor yet puzzling incident is one piece of the puzzle that the podcast Wind of Change, written and produced by the Orwell Prize-winning journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, centers on.
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Keefe had been chewing on the idea for about a decade. It all started with a second-hand disclosure from an intelligence service called “greybeard.” They’re convinced that the Scorpions’ multi-platinum hit single was, in fact, written by the Central Intelligence Agency.