Operation Paperclip, the post–World War II program by which the U.S. government really did secretly import Nazi war criminals to work on biological weapons, and, yes, the possibility of mind control. That actually happened. And the connection Diane drew between Disney and these secret Nazis, while not true, wasn’t as farfetched as one might think. Walt Disney admired Mussolini and in 1938 quietly hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, a month after Kristallnacht. Disney did not team up with Nazis to cook up mind-control methods encoded into cartoons, but the roots of Diane’s “logic” weren’t
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