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29 lip 2016 · During the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the CIA invented this unusual device to count people and supplies moving down the Ho Chi Minh Trail from North to South Vietnam.
After a short discussion of R&D support operations during WW II, SPYCRAFT describes the bureaucratically bumpy early Cold War years, as CIA leaders worked to adapt their wartime intelligence experience to establishing and running the nation’s first professional peacetime espionage organization.
24 lut 2011 · Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA's Historic Spy Kit. Whenever James Bond needed a nifty device to snap a surreptitious surveillance picture or escape the gilded clutches of Auric Goldfinger, he...
22 wrz 2021 · In 1974 the CIA premiered the ‘insectothopter’, a remote-controlled faux dragonfly designed to secretly record conversations of interest. The machine was not without its limitations. It housed a miniature gas engine, which could only be powered for around a minute.
When you're behind enemy lines you don't want to leave a trail that leads to your doorstep. In order to evade detection, the British created footprint overshoes for Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents operating in South-East Asia during WWII.
18 wrz 2017 · At a time when cameras were mostly clunky, weighty affairs, the CIA’s Office of Research and Development created one small enough and light enough to be strapped to the breast of a pigeon.
20 lis 2021 · Here are Some of the CIA's Top Spy Gadgets of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union had to think outside the box during the Cold War and from that, we got some fascinating...
