• Very Special Episodes: How a High-End Doll Shop Became a Hotbed for Espionage

  • Apr 26 2025
  • Length: 50 mins
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Very Special Episodes: How a High-End Doll Shop Became a Hotbed for Espionage

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  • 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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