In 1943 the OSS hired a smell expert to build a stink bomb called "Who, Me?" to humiliate Nazi officers

In 1943, the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA, hired Ernest Crocker, a chemical engineer with an expertise in smell.

They hired him to build a stink bomb. The code name was "Who, Me?" They wanted to create a spray that the French resistance could use against German officers that made them smell so much like feces that they became humiliated and the target of contempt by fellow officers. - Read the rest

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