
Episode 3: The Day
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
The Hercules Powder Company Explosion
Leon Lewis' network of undercover agents managed to embed themselves inside German-American groups with ties to the Hitler government. And also native-born American fascist groups that they were working with. It was one of Lewis' agents who told the government, in public testimony, that the Hercules Powder Company was going to be a target for sabotage. When the plant blew up, it happened the way he said it would.
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