00:00Did you know that the CIA tried to overthrow a dictator with music?
00:03Year 1989, Panama.
00:05Dictator Manuel Noriega was in trouble.
00:08The United States wanted him out of power and had sent troops to capture him.
00:12Their hiding place?
00:13The Vatican embassy in Panama.
00:15But there was a problem.
00:16They could not enter without causing a diplomatic conflict.
00:19How could they get him out of there without firing a single bullet?
00:22The CIA's strangest strategy.
00:24The US military had a brilliant idea.
00:27They put huge speakers outside the embassy and started playing music at full volume 24/7.
00:34It wasn't just any music.
00:36It was I Fought the Law by The Clash.
00:38They also played Van Halen's "Panama" just to make fun of him.
00:41Day and night, the songs never stopped.
00:44Noriega, who hated rock music, began to go crazy.
00:47I couldn't sleep, I couldn't think, I couldn't escape.
00:50After days of musical bombardment, he surrendered.
00:53How did the story end?
00:54Noriega was arrested and extradited to the U.S.A.
00:58He was tried and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
01:00He died in 2017.
01:02This tactic became so famous that it was later used in other conflicts to torture prisoners with repetitive music.
01:08Can you believe it?
01:09What a story!
01:10Thank you!
01:10Thank you!
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