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

Modern Wisdom

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The Ethics of Chemical Warfare

Eiffler asks William Donovan and the other kind of high ranking OSS personnel when he's launching this kidnapping mission originally that it doesn't even go through. He asked them, what am I supposed to do if I'm captured? Obviously, I'll kidnap Heisenberg or maybe even kill him, but I'm going to be captured afterwards. What do I do? And they said, we will deny you. In other words, we're not going to acknowledge that you're even part of our organization. That's you'll just have to deal with it. The guy who was prepared to take his own life as well in order to get Carl Eiffler back is absolutely ruthless.

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