The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII - John Lisle | Modern Wisdom 629

John Lisle is a historian and an author.

Imagine a world where international spying and espionage is only just beginning. Exploding pens, cyanide pills, bats with bombs strapped to them and radioactive foxes all were not only ideas, but were real tools used by the CIA in World War 2. John's research has uncovered a reality far stranger and more intriguing than any spy novel.

Expect to learn the origins of the Modern Day CIA, why a commander decided to single-handedly storm Normandy the day after D-Day, why the CIA attempted to trans Hitler into a woman, how someone discharged an entire pistol magazine right next to Franklin Roosevelt’s head in the Oval Office, why the agency tried to release a group of glowing radioactive foxes onto the streets of Japan and much more...

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00:00 Intro
00:50 The Dirty Tricks Department
06:51 The Mad Life of William Donovan
11:16 Recruiting Agents for the OSS
20:47 Did the CIA Use Psychedelics in WWII?
25:27 When the CIA Tried to Trans Hitler
32:05 Creating Glowing Foxes to Scare the Japanese
39:10 Strapping Bombs to Bats
44:15 The Most Pivotal Mission of the OSS
54:21 Levels of Ethics in Chemical Warfare
1:03:11 Where to Find John

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