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...defined as any leaflet, poster, radio broadcast, or other public or private media that appeared to come from within the enemy country, either from a resistance movement or from disgruntled soldiers and civilians. In essence, black propaganda was a series of believable lies...

...Everything changed in 1929 when she was cast as Lola Lola, a cabaret singer in a Weimar nightclub who has an affair with a local high school teacher, in the movie The Blue Angel. In the film, she sang the song “Falling in Love Again”�� the song she would become most famous for�� and her on-screen presence absolutely smoldered. Two versions of the movie were filmed, one in German and one in English; Marlene’s language lessons had paid off. When the movie was released in 1930, it was an instant hit, first in Germany and then internationally, primarily due to her screen presence and a couple of things that were shocking for the time: First, in an era where most women never wore pants, on-screen or off, Marlene wore a tuxedo and a top hat.
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Just as quickly as her popularity had plummeted just a couple of years earlier, it was resurrected in 1939, starting with the Western Destry Rides Again with James Stewart.

was known for violent storms, wind shears, and unpredictable squalls caused by crosswinds that could cause a plane to drop six thousand feet in altitude in less than ten seconds. It’s estimated that between 1942 and 1945 more than three thousand American, British, and Chinese planes crashed while traveling over the Hump.
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Sitting across from her on the flight was an annoyingly calm woman named Julia McWilliams, who serenely read a book for the entire flight while most people closed their eyes, prayed, and/ or got sick. McWilliams worked in the Research & Analysis branch of MO and would later be known as , who introduced French cooking to Americans.
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Charles Fenn, an OSS colleague who would later write ... remembered these parties, where each night approximately eighty men and thirteen women easily finished off three cases of rum and whiskey. “Betty205 was queen of the ball, and wore a dress so tight you could read her pulse,�� he wrote.

“Did I hate the Germans? The Japanese? Not really. I helped make up the slogans to make the other people hate,�� she said. “Packaged hate, like packaged breakfast foods, produced by the ad man in uniform. And249 a prize of a promise in every package�� the corner drugstore, ice cubes, America.��
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After she quit, Betty started writing a book about her years in the OSS for the Macmillan Company, a New York publisher;