OSS Operation Black Mail: One Woman’s Covert War Against the Imperial Japanese Army
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1682471500 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Coast Guard, and now lives in Dripping Springs, Texas. ANN TODD has been a contributing author and consultant for the National Geographic Society, given presentations in national parks about OSS operations, and worked as a historian for the National Museum of the Marine Corps. She served in the U.S
Her craft was black propaganda, and her mission was to demoralize the enemy through prevarication and deceit, and ultimately, convince him to surrender. Betty and her crew ingeniously obtained and altered personal correspondence between Japanese soldiers and their families on the home islands of Japan. The only beaches stormed are the minds of an invisible enemy. Elizabeth “Betty” P. OSS Operation Black Mail is the story of a remarkable woman who fought World War II on the front lines of psychological warfare. The process was opaque on both ends: the origin of a rumor or radio broadcast obscured, the target elusive. She knew her work could ultimately save lives, but never lost sight of the fact that her propaganda was a weapon and her intended target the enemy.This is not a typical war story. For Betty and her friends, time on the “front lines” of psychological warfare in China-Burma-India rushed by in a cascade of creativity and innovation, played out on a stage where a colonial world was ending and chaos awaited.. Often a great deal of time and effort was expended in conception and production, and rarely was it known if even a shred reached the hands of the intended recipient. McIntosh spent eighteen months serving in the Office of Strategic Services in what has been called the “forgotten theater,” China-Bur
Former reporter Betty McIntosh emerges from these pages as one of OSS General ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan’s most creative shadow warriors.” Peter Earnest, Executive Director of the International Spy Museum“A fascinating account of a remarkable woman in extraordinary circumstances. War and spycraft as they have seldom been portrayed. Brands, New York Times bestselling author of The First American and Traitor to His Class“OSS Operation Black Mail is the fascinating story of Betty McIntosh, whose real-life World War II exploits with the OSS sound like the produ