Short Stuff: Did a vampire legend help win the Cold War?
The episode of Short Stuff explores how the CIA, through operative Edward Geary Lansdale during the Cold War, weaponized Filipino folklore—specifically the myth of the Oswang, a blood- and organ-sucking creature—to psychologically terrorize communist rebels known as the Huks in the Ph
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