Speaker 1: Ah, good afternoon. How can I help you? Hi?
Speaker 2: Her my name is Flavio and I was born in Romania.
Speaker 1: But right now I'm I'm usp Then.
Speaker 3: It's April twenty twelve and a Romanian man makes a
Speaker 3: call to the United States Central Intelligence Agency. He says
Speaker 3: the matter at hand is urgent and he needs to
Speaker 3: meet in person with a CIA agent in Europe, and
Speaker 3: soon I.
Speaker 1: Need to talk with someone personally over here.
Speaker 3: The official on the phone sounds skeptical.
Speaker 1: Okay, then you need to go to Then you need
Speaker 1: to go to the embassy then, because if you don't
Speaker 1: want to tell me over the phone, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to send somebody out to meet you. Okay. If you
Speaker 1: need if you need to talk in person only, then
Speaker 1: you need to go to the embassy.
Speaker 3: The caller says, this is very serious and sensitive. He
Speaker 3: can't just walk into some embassy and start talking. He's
Speaker 3: been approached by someone who needs to buy weapons, some
Speaker 3: serious weapons that will target Americans. These guys are dangerous.
Speaker 1: So you do personal security all over the world. You're
Speaker 1: connected to all these different people, and you had somebody
Speaker 1: call you and say, can you get grenades and guns
Speaker 1: for this guy in Columbia not certify grades a lot
Speaker 1: of ammunitions, a muni AHA forty seven.
Speaker 3: You think a call like this would set off alarms,
Speaker 3: wouldn't The CIA love to catch some arms dealing bad guys.
Speaker 3: But that is not what happens. I'm Trevor Aronson from
Speaker 3: Western Sound and iHeart Podcasts. This is a new season
Speaker 3: of Alphabet Boys. This time it's an alphabet soup with
Speaker 3: the CIA, the DEA, and the FBI all mixed up
Speaker 3: in the same case. It's the story of a jet
Speaker 3: set Romanian businessman, a brash Colombian drug runner, and a
Speaker 3: seventeen million dollar arms deal that goes really really wrong.
Speaker 2: Is the.
Speaker 1: Romanian government on my ass right now? Because I think
Speaker 1: I'm bullshitting.
Speaker 3: At the center of everything, it's Flavio. But who is Flavio?
Speaker 4: When I land, there's Flavio in a suit, It's like
Speaker 4: follow me?
Speaker 3: Is he a secret agent?
Speaker 4: And he slams down his badge in my passport and
Speaker 4: they just stamp it and I'm like, something's going on here?
Speaker 3: Is he an arms dealer?
Speaker 2: You have to come to.
Speaker 1: Monte Negris because of your friends, because I have a
Speaker 1: right now in my head?
Speaker 3: Or is Flavio something else entirely What's college fum.
Speaker 1: An inmateant at a prison.
Speaker 3: Alphabet Boys is back with season two. Up in Arms.
Speaker 2: I see movies with arm dealers on TV, but hold on,
Speaker 2: I have to learn. I have to create a mindset. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going there for say, but I'm gonna die.
Speaker 3: Listen to Alphabet Boys starting June twenty sixth on the
Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.