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Podcast: Living Legacy Leadership
Episode: Nazis on the Potomac The Top Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II- with Miami Book Fair author Robert Sutton
Description: Nazis on the Potomac: The Top Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II- with Miami Book Fair author Robert Sutton
When the United States entered World War II, one endeavor was to establish a secret facility not far from the Pentagon to interrogate and eavesdrop on the highest-level Nazi prisoners and also translate and analyze captured German war documents. The American servicemen who interrogated German prisoners or translated captured German documents at Fort Hunt, known by the code name PO Box 1142, were absolutely dedicated to their work. Many of them were Jews, who...