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When Paul Fronczak was 10 in 1974, he entered the crawlspace in his home looking for Christmas presents. He found newspaper clippings about the kidnapping of “baby Paul.”
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The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal.
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The USAF Basic Encyclopedia. ‘What enabled us calmly to plan to incinerate vast numbers of unknown human beings without any sense of moral revulsion?’
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‘What enabled us calmly to plan to incinerate vast numbers of unknown human beings without any sense of moral revulsion?’ The USAF Basic Encyclopedia is a list of over 80,000 global targets for aerial bombing. It began in 1946 as punched cards for 5,000 targets in the USSR.
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