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Speaker 1: Everything appears to be quiet, But Casey is the first

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Speaker 1: Then a door swings open to reveal a visibly shaken guard.

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Speaker 1: Turns out there were two security guards held hostage during

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Speaker 1: I'm aggravated because some guy just stole a bike. For

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Speaker 1: was the initial thought in a frenzy to report every

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Speaker 1: Early police reports listed the monetary loss at five million dollars,

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Speaker 1: far greater. The thief actually got away with a total

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Speaker 1: of seven million, seventeen thousand one hundred and fifty one dollars,

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Speaker 1: At the time, it was one of the largest cash

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Speaker 1: heists in US history. But stealing seven million dollars, well,

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Speaker 1: that was just the beginning. My name is em William Phelps.

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Speaker 1: I'm an investigative journalist and author of more than forty

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Speaker 1: true crime books. What you were about to hear is

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Speaker 1: the true story of a heist, one that funded an

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Speaker 1: international independence movement and sparked an investigation spanning nearly four decades.

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Speaker 1: This is White Eagle. It was a Monday night in

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Speaker 1: mid September. Two Wells Fargo guards, twenty five year old

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Speaker 1: Ed mahoney has been a reporter for thirty years, many

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Speaker 1: The search for Victor Harraina began almost immediately after police

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Speaker 1: the heist had been located just outside a local airport.

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Speaker 1: After hours this season on White Eagle and the money

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Speaker 1: your son, I think is something that's organized here? If

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Speaker 1: she knew she's a great actress, because she was devastated

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Speaker 1: the FBI and Connecticut never woke up to this thing.

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Speaker 1: It was the FBI in Puerto Rico that put all together.

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Speaker 1: They were of folks who wanted Puerto Rico to be

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Speaker 1: part of the United States, but other folks felt that

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Speaker 1: that was not what they wanted and they wanted to

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Speaker 1: be their own nation. Things we could bloat up quite

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Speaker 1: and tired of this business. The fact that Puerto Rico

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Speaker 1: that they didn't get the support that they wanted. I

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Speaker 1: was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be,

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Speaker 1: to protect my comrades from from getting caught. This whole

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Speaker 1: issue is ignited a firestorm of controversy. What we want

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Speaker 1: to know is why did the President make this decision?

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Speaker 1: White Eagle has written an executive produced by me Em

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Speaker 1: William Phelps and Diheart executive producer Christina Everett. Additional writing

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Speaker 1: by Our Supervisor as In producer Julia Weaver. Our associate

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Speaker 1: producer and script supervisor is Darby Masters, Audio editing and

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Speaker 1: mixing by Jackie Huntington's Our series theme forms Regal or

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Speaker 1: Grand is written by Aaron Kaufman and special thanks to

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