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

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Can Foxes Swim?

Operation Fantasia involved capturing foxes, painting them with radioactive paint and releasing them in Japan. The idea was to see if the Americans would be spooked by these glowing foxes or not. Saunger found a document that talks about how he wants to carry this even further. He also wanted to taxidermy a fox using a human skull as its jaw so it could talk back to Japanese soldiers who were losing the war.

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