Who was Hugh Troy and what was his connection to the CIA?
Hugh Troy was a habitual prankster and CIA recruit who had previously attempted to display a human ear carved from beef at the Museum of Modern Art as belonging to Vincent Van Gogh; he reportedly suggested floating boxes of giant-sized condoms with "EXTRA SMALL" printed on them over Moscow.
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What was the CIA's scheme involving balloons floated over Soviet territory during the early Cold War?
The CIA sought to float balloons bearing gifts like cheap wristwatches with Mickey Mouse painted on them to "prove" the superiority of Western capitalism over Stalinist autocracy.
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What was the nature of "Operation Cornflakes" conducted by the OSS?
Operation Cornflakes aimed to destroy German morale by substituting ordinary Nazi postage stamps with fake ones featuring a doctored image of Adolf Hitler as a living skeleton. The plan involved bombing mail trains just enough to cause bags to fall onto tracks, then dropping sacks of fake letters containing free samples of the skull-stamps so they would circulate among the German public.
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What was the objective of the 1944 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Simple Sabotage Field Manual?
The manual was intended for use by disenchanted Germans against Nazi overlords on home-soil to undermine the war machine through quotidian means, such as urinating in gasoline tanks, removing toilet paper from restrooms, releasing moths in cinemas, misspelling words like "minimum" and "maximum" as "miximum," and using bureaucratic delays to gum up government machinery.
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