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Spies and Dolls: The Doll Shop That Doubled as a Hotbed for Espionage
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:49:44
Publish Date: 2025-04-23 19:14:00
Description:

Velvalee Dickinson ran a doll shop on Madison Avenue that catered to wealthy collectors. But in one of the strangest espionage cases of World War II, Dickinson's clients had no idea she was using correspondence about doll orders to transmit coded U.S. military intelligence to the Japanese.

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