Operation Cornflakes

By 1945, the Allies had tried nearly everything to undermine Nazi Germany from the inside. Leaflets dropped from planes. Radio broadcasts. Forged documents. And then someone in the Office of Strategic Services — the forerunner to the CIA — had an idea that was either brilliant or completely unhinged, possibly both.What if they weaponized the mail?This week's Sidequests covers Operation Cornflakes: the Allied psychological operation that used bombed mail trains, counterfeit Nazi postage stamps, and fake German newspapers to slip anti-Nazi propaganda directly into the hands of ordinary German citizens — delivered, unknowingly, by actual German postal workers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.