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341. Secret Scientists & Real Conspiracies — John Lisle on Stanley Lovell, the OSS precursor to the CIA, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

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The Unofficial Science Advisor to President Roosevelt During World War II

Wild Bill Donovan is the man who's put in charge of the OSS, this office of strategic services. Its purpose is to collect intelligence abroad and analyze that intelligence at home. To head this branch he hires a chemist from New England around Boston named Stanley Lovell. Veneaver Bush is kind of the unofficial science advisor to President Roosevelt during World War II.

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