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#629 - John Lisle - The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII

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Covert Operations and Ethical Dilemmas in WWII

This chapter explores the CIA's secret missions to impede Germany's atomic bomb efforts, focusing on the controversial role of physicist Werner Heisenberg and OSS agent Mo Berg. It also addresses the moral complexities of wartime decisions regarding weaponization, particularly through the shifting views of Stanley Lovell on chemical and biological warfare.

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