The rat that helped win the Cold War

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In the first of a weeklong series of episodes about spies, subterfuge and intelligence, a look at how the CIA used dead rats to send secret messages in the former Soviet Union.Related episodesThe pistols that almost fell from the skyThat time the CIA stole a Russian submarineThe ax that killed Leon Trotsky

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In the first of a weeklong series of episodes about spies, subterfuge and intelligence, a look at how the CIA used dead rats to send secret messages in the former Soviet Union.

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