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Source: New York Times

3/7/2023

Review: Fluorescent Foxes and Other Outrageous Projects of WWII Espionage

Stanley Lovell, believed to the the inspiration for "Q" in the James Bond stories, was the mastermind of the most outrageous efforts at psychological warfare and deception for the precursor agency to the CIA – including painting foxes with radium to resemble kitsune, shinto harbingers of doom.

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Review: Fluorescent Foxes and Other Outrageous Projects of WWII Espionage