Operation Cornflakes
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operation-cornflakes-171-9127334
title:
Operation Cornflakes
text:
Operation Cornflakes was a morale operation by the Office of Strategic Services during World War II that aimed to trick Deutsche Reichspost into inadvertently delivering anti-Nazi propaganda to German citizens through mail. The operation involved special planes that were instructed to airdrop bags of false, but properly addressed, mail in the vicinity of bombed mail trains. When recovering the mail during clean-up of the wreck, the postal service would hopefully confuse the false mail for genuin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Military operation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cornflakes
date created:
2005-02-04T00:20:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T14:57:51Z
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