Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History The Fifth of
Speaker 1: January film. On the fifth of January nineteen seventy, a
Speaker 1: group of mercenaries headed to Socio, France to begin work
Speaker 1: at the Pergo factory in order to infiltrate and break
Speaker 1: workers organization. Pergo initially hired a group of one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty mostly army veterans, including convicted murderers and other criminals. However,
Speaker 1: the plan didn't work very well because the mercenaries started
Speaker 1: carrying out robberies and even considered organizing sabotage and slow
Speaker 1: downs in the factory themselves in order to make themselves
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