Operation Annie operation
also: Annie
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American Psychological Warfare Division carried_out_attack
Operation Annie book_quoted
“It says, from an Irishman broadcasting pro-German programming to the American Psychological Warfare Division running disinformation campaigns. This is the story of Operation Annie. For more information on the Psychological Warfare Division,…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright @ 16:16
Hans Berger headed
Operation Annie documented
“was guarding Operation Annie, the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe. The story of the radio's slickest war role was told for the first time this week by a Czech-born film director, Hans Berger, in the New York Times.…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright @ 18:14
Operation Annie carried_out_attack
West Germany documented
“of the 12th Army Group during the war's last five months. Annie's objective, to win the enemy's confidence and give him aid and comfort. The better to dupe him afterwards. Annie broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour program each night, using the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Loose ends and our new friend Cartwright @ 18:43
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It says, from an Irishman broadcasting pro-German programming to the American Psychological Warfare Division running disinformation campaigns. This is the story of Operation Annie. For more information on the Psychological Warfare Division,…
▶ 18:14
was guarding Operation Annie, the most dramatic underground radio station in wartime Europe. The story of the radio's slickest war role was told for the first time this week by a Czech-born film director, Hans Berger, in the New York Times.…
▶ 18:43
of the 12th Army Group during the war's last five months. Annie's objective, to win the enemy's confidence and give him aid and comfort. The better to dupe him afterwards. Annie broadcast a four-and-a-half-hour program each night, using the…
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Viennese waltzes and German folk songs. The station pretended to be inside the Reich, also warmly pro-German. Sadly and desperately honest about every lost Nazi position. For Nazi field commanders, it was often the only way they learned abo…
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More men and equipment were thus lured into capture. On other occasions, Annie would innocently report quote-unquote facts that troubled civilians. For example, the Reich's Cardiographical Institute, said Annie, was short of maps. They were…
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still 300 miles inside the Reich. Or Annie would send housewives raiding grocery stores by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroads, most of them slave labo…
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for the benefit of the assembled workers, unquote. Annie's biggest day came soon after a bridge was taken. Another Allied force had secured a bridgehead. Hold on a second, they're messing with Bridget again. And Nazi troops in the mountains…