Modern Wisdom

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

May 18, 2023

01:08:20

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Episode notes

Introduction

5min

The Dirty Tricks Department

2min

The Dirty Tricks Department

3min

The L-Pil

2min

William Donovan: The Precursor to the CIA

2min

Stanley Lovell and the Office of Strategic Services

2min

The Mission of the OSS

2min

Stanley Level and the OSS

4min

The Most Exciting Group in Document Forgery

2min

10.

The Secrets of the Camouflage Division

2min

11.

The History of Psychedelics

5min

12.

The Fear of the Soviets Putting LSD in the Water Supply

3min

13.

The Psychological Warfare of Hitler

3min

14.

Operation Fantasia

4min

15.

Can Foxes Swim?

3min

16.

The Bat Bomb Idea

5min

17.

The Dirty Tricks Department: The Most Successful Contribution

3min

18.

The Origins of the Itching Powder

2min

19.

The Origins of the Atomic Bomb

6min

20.

The Ethics of Chemical Warfare

4min

21.

The Perverse Incentive to End the War

2min

22.

Stanley Level's Legacy

4min

23.

How to Be a History Writer

2min

John Lisle is a historian and an author.

Imagine a world where international spying and espionage is only just beginning. Exploding pens, cyanide pills, bats with bombs strapped to them and radioactive foxes all were not only ideas, but were real tools used by the CIA in World War 2. John's research has uncovered a reality far stranger and more intriguing than any spy novel.

Expect to learn the origins of the Modern Day CIA, why a commander decided to single-handedly storm Normandy the day after D-Day, why the CIA attempted to trans Hitler into a woman, how someone discharged an entire pistol magazine right next to Franklin Roosevelt’s head in the Oval Office, why the agency tried to release a group of glowing radioactive foxes onto the streets of Japan and much more...

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