The Starfighter & the Condor

The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror.

SECTIONS

02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but...
03:32 - Bug, fixes & features
07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany
08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama
14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out
17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane
21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election
23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions
25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA
29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever
32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig
37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor
38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts