Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Thursday, April 28, 2011

Inspector Gadget


Tools of Tradecraft: More Spy Gear From the CIA, Others

Take a look at the items and read the captions on what they are and how they were used. You can see them by clicking on the thumbnail photos under the large photo, or by choosing the 'previous, next' links.

The historic part of it is very interesting considering they had to do what they did before the miniaturization of electronics and other things that we have now. If only this ingenuity could be put to peaceful purposes...

And here's the original post that this one follows up:

Tools of Tradecraft: The CIA’s Historic Spy Kit

Someone out there is sighing: "Ah, those were the days..."


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