The Man From UNCLE

<p>This week we're going back to 1960s Europe with The Man From UNCLE! Join us as we learn about black market weapons, kidnapped scientists, amphibious cars, CIA recruitment, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>"Nazis and Axis Collaborators Were Used to Further US Anti-Communist Objectives in Europe; Some Immigrated to the United States," Report by the Comptroller of the United States, 1985. Available at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP87M01152R000300410001-8.pdf<br /> CIA Tried to Get Mafia to Kill Castro: Documents. Reuters, available at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cia-secrets-idUSN2636255220070626</p> <p>Kidnapping of Dr. Walter Linse: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/openness-russia-and-eastern-europe-intelligence/2022-05-11/secret-war-germany-cias <br /> ""Kidnapped" scientist is back at Soviet Embassy," The Times of India (19 September 1967): 7. <br /> "West German Rocket Act Kidnapped," The Arizona Post (Tucson, AZ), 5 October 1962, 3. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82000867/1962-10-05/ed-1/seq-3/ <br /> "Israeli Held by Swiss; Claim Bid To 'Coerce' German Scientists," The Jerusalem Post (17 March 1963): 1. <br /> Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Yale University Press, 2014). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkz54.15<br /> TV Tropes: "Kidnapped Scientist," https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KidnappedScientist </p> <p>"Remarks By President Barack Obama In Prague As Delivered," 5 April 2009, (Prague, Czech Republic), https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-prague-delivered <br /> Sue Branford, "Nuclear secret is out," The Observer (28 June 1981): 11. <br /> Siegfried Buschschluter, "Bonn denial on S. Africa arms," The Guardian (15 August 1977): 6. <br /> Anthony Tucker, "Terrorist nuclear bombs 'feasible'," The Guardian (24 December 1973): 4. </p> <p>"The Amphibious Car that Lyndon Johnson Used to Prank People," available at https://rarehistoricalphot