#629 - John Lisle - The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:03.5 | My guest today is John Lyle, he's a historian and an author. |
| 0:08.1 | Imagine a world where international spying and espionage is only just beginning. |
| 0:13.4 | Exploding pens, sign-eyed pills, bats with bombs strapped to them and radioactive foxes |
| 0:18.6 | were all not only ideas, but were real tools used by the CIA during World War II. |
| 0:24.9 | John's research has uncovered a reality far stranger and more intriguing than any spy |
| 0:29.1 | novel. |
| 0:30.1 | And today we get to go through it. |
| 0:32.1 | Expect to learn the origins of the modern-day CIA, why a commander decided to single-handedly |
| 0:37.8 | storm Normandy the day after, D-Day, why the CIA attempted to trans-hitler into a woman, |
| 0:45.3 | how someone discharged an entire pistol magazine right next to Franklin Roosevelt's head inside |
| 0:50.7 | the Oval Office, why the agency tried to release a group of glowing radioactive foxes onto |
| 0:56.6 | the streets of Japan. |
| 0:58.9 | And much more. |
| 1:01.8 | So cool. |
| 1:02.8 | So fun. |
| 1:03.8 | This episode, John has been storming through the archives, absolutely tearing them apart, |
| 1:09.3 | desperately trying to find all of the information that he can, these fascinating tales from |
| 1:14.6 | World War II. |
| 1:15.6 | It's great. |
| 1:16.6 | I really love it. |
| 1:17.6 | There is nothing that you need to take away from today. |
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