Comment: I nominate Major George Racey Jordan

as the patron saint of whistleblowers.

In 1942 he was called out of retirement from the Air Force, promoted from captain to major, and put in charge of the lend-lease program which shipped $9.6 billion worth of war supplies and gold-plated cigarette cases to Moscow.

He blew the whistle on the abuses of lend-lease, the shipment of aluminum tubes, uranium, and heavy water to Russia, the delivery of occupation currency printing plates, ink and paper to the Russians, the movement of hundreds of undocumented Russian spies into the country, the demolition of California's gold mining industry, and the plot to introduce fluoride to the water supply.

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