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TIL of Moe Berg. A baseball catcher that traveled to Japan on a tour with Babe Ruth in 1934 and snuck to the top floor to take film of Tokyo without being hired to. Then he was hired by the OSS to watch and shoot Werner Heisnberg if he got too close to the a bomb..

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