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#629 - John Lisle - The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII
Modern Wisdom
The Dirty Tricks Department
The OSS is in charge of coordinating kind of intelligence during World War II for the United States. The R&D branch or what I call the Dirty Tricks Department pretty quickly grew out of the OSS as head William Donovan realized he needed scientists to create these things so that spies and saboteurs who were being sent abroad can do their jobs. There are definitely parallels between those two organizations.
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