Mind's Eye
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Some people have skills that sound too good to be true, while others have talents that are far worse than we'd feared. Either way, they make great additions to the Cabinet of Curiosities.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.9 | And war, each side will look for any opportunity to gain an advantage over the other. |
| 0:33.3 | Hitler notoriously studied the occult for supernatural assistance in defeating the Allies. |
| 0:38.4 | In fact, it's been theorized by some that the Nazi movement originated from occult teachings. |
| 0:44.8 | As time pressed on, however, spellbooks and pentagrams took a backseat to good ol' reliable |
| 0:49.8 | firepower. |
| 0:51.2 | And spies. |
| 0:52.8 | His plate and integral part in dismantling regimes and changing the geopolitical landscape. |
| 0:59.4 | Nikolai Kulkloff had been a KGB agent during the 1950s, getting his start as a member of |
| 1:05.6 | the People's Commissariate for Internal Affairs a decade earlier. |
| 1:09.9 | As a member of the NKVD, Kulkloff had gone undercover as a Nazi officer in Belarus and |
| 1:15.5 | participated in several assassination missions. |
| 1:19.1 | Now an agent with a KGB, he'd been tasked with assassinating the leader of an anti-communist |
| 1:24.1 | group in Frankfurt. |
| 1:25.4 | However, rather than use a standard pistol or poison to take out his target, he opted |
| 1:30.4 | for something a bit more theatrical. |
| 1:32.7 | A cigarette pack that fired hollow nose bullets coated in potassium cyanide. |
| 1:38.2 | But by this time, Kulkloff had grown tired of his trade. |
| 1:41.4 | Instead of killing the man, he instead warned him that Russia had put a hit out on him. |
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