"The Unsuccessful WWII Plot to Fight the Japanese With" Topic
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Tango01 | 01 Oct 2020 4:25 p.m. PST |
…Radioactive Foxes "In the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "Wild Bill" Donovan, the leader of the Office of Strategic Services—America's wartime intelligence agency—told his scientists to find a way to "outfox" the Axis enemies. In response, the scientists produced a number of dirty tricks, including explosive pancake mix, incendiary bombs strapped to live bats, truth drugs for eliciting information from prisoners of war, and a foul-smelling spray that mimicked the repulsive odor of fecal matter. In other words, desperate times called for desperate measures. Among these outlandish strategies, Operation Fantasia was the most desperate—and peculiar—of them all. Operation Fantasia was the brainchild of OSS psychological warfare strategist Ed Salinger, an eccentric businessman who had run an import/export business in Tokyo before the war. Salinger's business dealings had given him a cursory introduction to Japanese culture; he learned the language, collected the art and studied the superstitions—which is why the OSS hired him. Operation Fantasia, he pitched the organization in 1943, would destroy Japanese morale by exposing soldiers and civilians to a Shinto portent of doom: kitsune, fox-shaped spirits with magical abilities. "The foundation for the proposal," Salinger wrote in a memo outlining his idea, "rests upon the fact that the modern Japanese is subject to superstitions, beliefs in evil spirits and unnatural manifestations which can be provoked and stimulated."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Garand | 01 Oct 2020 4:48 p.m. PST |
The reason it was not successful is because they bred a race of hyper-intelligent mutant foxes, that plotted their revenge against mankind for centuries of fur coats. There was an "incident" & it was believed that the US Army wiped them out…or did they?!? Damon. |
Tango01 | 02 Oct 2020 1:08 p.m. PST |
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