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Jul. 15, 2026

Was England’s 1970 World Cup dream brought down by the CIA?

Was England’s 1970 World Cup dream brought down by the CIA?

In a new Audible podcast, Charlie Webster revisits the extraordinary scam of a 27-year-old man who passed himself off as Steven Spielberg’s teenage nephew to enrol at an exclusive US high school. Here, she tells Nick Levine why a traumatic event... Read more.

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