The Strategy Bridge

Librarians, Books, and Intelligence Gathering in World War II with Kathy Peiss


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During World War II, librarians, archivists, microfilm specialists, and book connoisseurs were recruited by the US government to go overseas and collect enemy books, newspapers, journals, and other publications as part of an open-source intelligence effort. In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk about their work with Dr. Kathy Peiss. She is a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of "Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together In World War II Europe."

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