CIA care package
Oct 17, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
A guy who was a prisoner of war got one really weird item in his coming home care package. Safe to say the CIA doesn't need to be in charge of those...?
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Oct 17, 2026 · 3 min · 3 segments
A guy who was a prisoner of war got one really weird item in his coming home care package. Safe to say the CIA doesn't need to be in charge of those...?
So there is a guy.
He is an American journalist.
His name is Evan Gershkovic.
And he spent 16 months in a Russian prison because he was accused of being a spy while he was over there doing journalism stuff.
Whenever he got released, which happened after 16 months in this prison camp, he got a recovery kit from the CIA.
And it's like, here's everything you need to get back to normal life.
Nice of them.
They gave it to him on the flight home to the Andrews military base.
Weird.
They gave him a blue chew.
They gave him one of those.
He said maybe it's a smart thing.
A traumatized person comes home and sees his wife for the first time in years or whatever.
No,
no.
I mean, I could see I could see a world like I watched Homeland whenever it was on TV.
I could see a world where the CIA might need those pills for their own crazy tactics or whatever.
I don't want to know about that.
That's not my business.
So there is a guy.
He is an American journalist.
His name is Evan Gershkovic.
And he spent 16 months in a Russian prison because he was accused of being a spy while he was over there doing journalism stuff.
Whenever he got released, which happened after 16 months in this prison camp, he got a recovery kit from the CIA.
And it's like, here's everything you need to get back to normal life.
Nice of them.
They gave it to him on the flight home to the Andrews military base.
Weird.
They gave him a blue chew.
They gave him one of those.
He said maybe it's a smart thing.
A traumatized person comes home and sees his wife for the first time in years or whatever.
No,
no.
I mean, I could see I could see a world like I watched Homeland whenever it was on TV.
I could see a world where the CIA might need those pills for their own crazy tactics or whatever.
I don't want to know about that.
That's not my business.
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