John Lisle
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The Japanese are going to look up and see this flying, glowing, radioactive fox spreading this propaganda.
And they're apparently going to lay down their arms.
I guess that was the plan.
And so that was his ultimate idea of what we can do.
That never actually made it.
About the time that he was writing all this up and doing these experiments, the Manhattan Project had performed the Trinity test, and so it was like, well, we already have the weapon that's going to win the war, so we don't need the glowing foxes.
So when you research stuff like that, all of a sudden it's like, well, anything is kind of possible.
Do you remember that story?
Yeah, that's a big part of my book.
So in 1975 or so, really in 1974, there's something called the Rockefeller Commission.
And that was an executive commission set up to investigate past abuses of the intelligence community.
And that kind of led to the Church Committee in 1975.
and also the Pike Committee in the House.