Psyop Cornflakes Tweets from WWII

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US Office of Strategic Services begins Operation Cornflakes: airdropping bags of fake letters near bombed Axis mail trains, getting the German postal service to collect & deliver Allied propaganda.



Operation Cornflakes (named because German civilians are meant to read covert Allied propaganda over their breakfast) attaches fake German stamps to letters, showing Hitler's face as a skull & the legend "Futsches Reich", "lost empire":



Nazi Germany also produces fake enemy stamps as propaganda, like this imitation Silver Jubilee stamp, replacing King George's head with Stalin's, using the slogan:

In June 2021, this article was used as a reference source in the Dutch Ministry of Defense military website Defense Newspaper in an article by Evert Brouwer titled “Operation Cornflakes.” In June 2019, A Finnish author asked to use this article as a reference source for an article titled “American Hitler Forgeries: the Case of Operation Cornflakes,” in the Fakes, Forgeries and Experts Journal and Journal of the Philatelic Federation of Finland.

Operation Cornflakes is one of the best known Office of Strategic Services (OSS) secret “black” operations of WWII. The reason it is so well known is that the OSS Rome Detachment prepared publicity booklets to be given to visiting politicians and members of the Congressional Oversight Committee. They realized that these people held the OSS purse-strings, and they wanted to keep them happy and up-to-date on current projects. It is not known exactly how many such booklets, entitled The Story of Cornflakes, Pig Iron and Sheet Iron exist, but I have seen numbers as high as 20 to 30. We must point out here that there are two different kinds of Cornflakes publications.

One is a thin paper-back publicity booklet that explains the operations and contains photographs and souvenirs. The other is a large hard-cover scrapbook that contains about 400 OSS specimens. They are very different and obviously the scrapbook is worth far more than the publicity booklet. After the war, a few such booklets were found in the attic of the home where OSS members were housed. Shortly after the war some were sold for $250. Years later, in 1984 one of the scrapbooks was offered at auction estimated at $5000. The description was:

The original complete sample book displaying extensive anti-Hitler and anti-Fascist literature, newspapers, propaganda, leaflets, etc. as printed and compiled by one of the directors of the whole operation, Robert Allen. Well over 300 items, the documents are mostly in German but also some in Italian and Russian. Included is a large production report, photographs of the presses and a complete sheet of 50 of the Hitler Death Mask propaganda label as manufactured by the Rome printing presses.

Poison Cornflakes for Breakfast (link has a TON of interesting history)

Operation Cornflakes (National WWII Museum, New Orleans)


Quite famous amongst philatelists:




In modern times, they send those same messages via msm to social media, big tech advertisers, DARPA & from ELon satellites into your brain waves from far away stations strategically placed around the world. E L F signals.

Did you know "TWITTER, INC" was Trademarked Registered originating from 1941.

This is a great post. I somewhat remember learning this in school.

The fact that Twitter Inc trademarked in 1941 is a major red flag. To me that just shows how much propaganda we've been fed here, as well.