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Episode 4: A Bad Angle

Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra

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George Sylvester Wiric and Senator Ernest Lundin - The American Congressman

In the early 1940s, members of Congress were able to send their constituents mail for free. George Sylvester Wiric realized he could weaponize that against the American people. He would get pro-German speeches from the Hitler government and use Senator Ernest Lundin's Senate phone to conduct Nazi business in the United States. The scheme went on until the day Lundin died with one of Wiric's speeches in his pocket.

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