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I'm not saying it wouldn't detect spies, but a test is no good if it also results in summary executions of one in every five apple-pie Americans.

• WalterBright 1y ago
  When you're fighting for your life, yes it would be acceptable, and yes it happened.
  • sorcerer-mar 1y ago
    There's no evidence people were summarily executed for bad answers. People were detained through this method though
    • WalterBright 1y ago
      Operation Greif
      • sorcerer-mar 1y ago
        What was described above is someone asking another person a factoid about baseball and then shooting them if given an incorrect answer. You're referring to instances of captured spies (potentially captured by said baseball questions) being tried as spies and executed. The former did not happen, the latter did happen (which I don't think anyone here would've disputed).