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Episode 535: The Manhattan Project Part III - Sometimes You Need a Daddy

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The White Weeaboo

In 1930, Pash was in the army's intelligence division tasked with hunting Japanese insurgents. After becoming obsessed with Japanese culture, Velvely used her doll shop as a front for Japanese espionage. She passed military intelligence to the Japanese in letters that relayed information through doll lingo. Out of the 10 people convicted of spying for Japan domestically during World War II, all 10 were white weeaboos.

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