11 Bizarre Psy-Ops Real Governments Tried To Pull Off
Military history: it's supposedly just battles between armies. But what about the countries who launched elaborate assaults on other nations' minds? Or beseiged their own citizens' sanity? On this episode of The Cracked Podcast, Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Adam Tod Brown (Unpopular Opinion) and Jeff May (Sideshow's Sideshow) for the strangest, silliest, oddest psychological warfare ever plotted by national governments. Discover tales of elected officials and professional militaries dreaming up pranks, toys, holograms, and more bizarre tools for crushing their enemies...even if the execution of those plots would boggle the mind.
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