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David Lee Roth, America's Secret Weapon

By Jason Zengerle

December 19, 2007

Matt Yglesias notes the role the Red Hot Chili Peppers played in the torture of Abu Zubaydah. Which sent me on a search for the specific music U.S. troops played when they were trying to flush Manuel Noriega out of the Vatican Embassy in Panama back in 1989. According to Wikipedia, the number one song in the Noriega psyops rotation was Van Halen's "Panama." Kind of an obvious choice in hindsight.

--Jason Zengerle 

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