Elixir of eternal stupidity near Ostrava. Soldiers raided their airport for a mythical chemical
This episode of the Declassified podcast is called The Elixir of Eternal Stupidity. In early July 1991, the then-federal Department of Defense received information from military intelligence that so-called red mercury, the mythical and secret ingredient in perfect atomic weapons, was being smuggled into the United States through Czechoslovakia. The head of military counterintelligence is verifying the information with civilian counterintelligence. The latter has also heard about it, and the information is therefore considered credible.