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Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy

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The Human Element in Operation Shark

In 1944, Boris Pash was an Italy tracking down a former assistant of Enrico Fermis to see what he knew about German atomic studies. Both Borsh Pash and Mo Berg had both been assigned to interrogate and or retrieve this Italian assistant. But since this spycraft stuff was still pretty new to the Americans, Operation Shark got double booked. So such a thing. It's humanity. Again, we always talk about the human element. And it's just so crazy. Just like both of them, none of them, because everything's so secret, nobody can know what the fuck's going on. That's shrimp is the answer. That lip shrimp was the answer

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