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    Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"

    Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"

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    Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"

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    Length:
    43 minutes
    Released:
    Apr 18, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    John Lisle, a historian of science and the American intelligence community and author of The Dirty Tricks Department, joins the show to talk about the World War Two-era Office of Strategic Services and its Research and Development Branch.
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    • 01:44 Introduction 
    • 02:10 “Wild Bill” Donovan
    • 05:54 Donovan’s style 
    • 08:53 Stanley Lovell
    • 12:35 An unconventional training process
    • 16:40 Explosive pancake batter
    • 19:24 Limpet mines and Java Man
    • 23:33 A meaningful legacy?
    • 27:34 Target: Werner Heisenberg
    • 31:51 WMDs 
    • 35:40 Truth Serum
    • 39:02 From OSS to CIA

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    Released:
    Apr 18, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    This podcast seeks to learn what war teaches. There’s a steady decline in the study of military history and its associated theoretical discipline, strategy. Avoiding the knowledge of war is dangerous. This podcast solves that problem by diving into military and diplomatic history.  We study strategy, and the words and deeds of significant battlefield commanders, diplomats, strategists, policymakers, and statesmen who have trained directly in the school of war.   This podcast is primarily an interview show. The subject of any given episode may be the story of an historical battle, campaign, or conflict; the conduct of policy in the course of a major international competition; the work of a famous strategist; the nature of a famous weapon; the legacy of an important military commander or political leader in wartime.