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The rat that helped win the Cold War
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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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 episodes
- The pistols that almost fell from the sky
- That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine
- The ax that killed Leon Trotsky
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