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341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Ineffectiveness of the Bat Bomb

Dentist named the little Adams had an idea that he thought was going to win the war during World War II. He said if we could strap some kind of incendiary device to these bats, then they would naturally fly into the nooks and crannies of different wooden buildings. The R&D branch who's in charge of making these kinds of weapons hires Lewis Pfizer, this guy who invented napalm,. They did several tests with these bats but it didn't really work too well.

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