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    1. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017

      Barbara Lauwers worked in #OSS Morale Ops (MO) & developed propaganda programs to crush the enemy’s spirit. http://bit.ly/2sjQtpQ  #OSS75pic.twitter.com/zCqFkgzl3q

      44 replies 238 retweets 572 likes
    2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA

      Barbara, born in 1914 in Božena Hauserová, earned a doctorate in law before she married & moved to America in 1941. #OSS75

      5 replies 33 retweets 102 likes
    3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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      1943: Barbara became US citizen & same day joined @USArmy “I hoped the service would be a great adventure. I didn’t want to miss it!” #OSS75

      3 replies 36 retweets 121 likes
    4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
      Replying to @CIA @USArmy

      While @ Women’s Army Corps officers’ school, Barbara was singled out & sent to DC She didn’t know it was for #OSS until she got there #OSS75

      4 replies 30 retweets 91 likes
    5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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      1944: Barbara sent to Italy to attack morale of German army with: rumors fake orders leaflets about unrest among its military leaders #OSS75

      5 replies 50 retweets 134 likes
      CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017

      Hours after German generals’ failed assassination attempt of Hitler, MO started working on what would become Operation Sauerkraut. #OSS75pic.twitter.com/I5yJ0cuGQJ

      5:20 PM - 29 Jun 2017
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      2 replies 61 retweets 134 likes
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        2. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Barbara–fluent in German, English, Czech, Slovak, & French–was chosen to interview German prisoners @ a camp south of Naples. #OSS75

          4 replies 32 retweets 119 likes
        3. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Barbara picked prisoners to infiltrate frontline & distribute propaganda She made new identities & helped them memorize their stories #OSS75

          2 replies 30 retweets 93 likes
        4. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          4 days after Operation Sauerkraut launched, the German prisoners were ready for their mission. #OSS75

          3 replies 24 retweets 80 likes
        5. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Prisoners were dressed in German uniforms & given forged identity papers, firearms, survival supplies, & 3,000 pieces of MO material. #OSS75

          1 reply 32 retweets 96 likes
        6. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Prisoners nailed propaganda documents to trees & left them in streets. They also brought back intel, like location of German troops. #OSS75

          2 replies 36 retweets 111 likes
        7. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Sauerkraut was so successful that it became an expanded & ongoing operation for duration of #WWII in Italy & later France. #OSS75

          4 replies 38 retweets 97 likes
        8. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Barbara’s League of Lonely War Women campaign claimed if soldier wore a heart on his lapel, a League member would offer companionship #OSS75pic.twitter.com/Rn6Rqfiv77

          3 replies 40 retweets 96 likes
        9. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Axis morale was undermined by insinuating that German soldiers’ wives or girlfriends were being promiscuous or unfaithful. #OSS75

          11 replies 39 retweets 103 likes
        10. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Barbara also produced propaganda convincing 600 Czech soldiers forced into German service to cross front lines into Allied territory. #OSS75

          10 replies 49 retweets 168 likes
        11. CIA‏Verified account @CIA 29 Jun 2017
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          Barbara earned Bronze Star for her #OSS work It was presented to her on April 6, 1945 by the MO chief in Rome http://bit.ly/2sjQtpQ  #OSS75pic.twitter.com/2vk5Y651r2

          20 replies 68 retweets 218 likes
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        1. Vickie Rubinson‏ @RubinsonVickie 2 Aug 2017
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          I'm a WWII buff and I wonder why I never heard of Operation Sauerkraut?

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