# The Most Disturbing CIA Programs (Sheep Dipping), Scientology, & Hollywood Rumors

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Podcast: [Julian Dorey Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/julian-dorey-daily-7299101)
Published: 2026-08-13T16:00:00+00:00
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Watch the FULL EPISODE here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9eVhNsPg6Y Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily Julian Dorey sits down with a comedian friend for the most entertaining and most genuinely alarming conversation about documented CIA programs that this podcast has produced. The subject is sheep dipping — the CIA program that strips active-duty military personnel of their military identity and inserts them into fake civilian lives as cover for covert intelligence operations — along with the documented connections between the CIA Scientology and Hollywood and the specific rumors circulating in those overlapping worlds that Julian Dorey finds impossible to dismiss. Sheep dipping refers to the process of temporarily separating active-duty military personnel from their military status — officially or unofficially — to assign them to intelligence operations. These individuals are often given false identities cover stories or employment with civilian government agencies private contractors or non-governmental organizations. The best known example is Air America — the CIA's proprietary airline that operated throughout Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War — but the practice extends across decades of American covert operations and into contexts that most Americans have never been told about. Julian Dorey examines what sheep dipping actually involves what the documented historical record shows about how extensively it has been used and why the practice raises specific and alarming questions about accountability oversight and the specific categories of people who can be turned into intelligence assets without the public ever knowing. The Scientology thread is the episode's most institutionally alarming and most consistently underreported contribution. The documented connec…

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