Not all of Adolph Hitler's family were homicidal megalomaniacs - his sister Paula was quite nice, for example. So the precursor to the CIA thought they might like to make him more like her.
British spies at one point hatched a plan to feminize Hitler a little by doping up his food with estrogen. Professor Brian Ford of Cardiff University discovered that, and other ingenious plans in old unclassified documents, and outlines them in Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II.
Estrogen is a powerful endocrine disruptor. Activists go on and on about BPA but it acts 1/20,000th as well as estrogen. It is basically a biological impossibility to get an effect from BPA in 10 lifetimes but environmentalists need new targets every year so Manwich cans are now harming us, we are told.
A lot of estrogen would explain the mustache.
Yet estrogen being used to 'feminize' him was one idea. He had tasters so poison was a no-go but estrogen has no taste. The idea was to make him more like his sister, who was a secretary and not the kind of anti-Semitic centralized government progressive maniac her brother had become. So the U.S. Office of Strategic Services thought they might bribe his gardener to inject estrogen into...carrots.
If they were able to slip him estrogen, there is no record of it. But Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent at the Telegraph, talks with Ford about that and also discusses other neat secret plans, like trying to drop glue on soldiers to make them stick to the ground and dropping poisonous snakes on them too.
