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CIA & KGB Gadgets On Display

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-a-tthe-gear dept.

ricst writes "Been postponing that visit to the Reagan Presidential library? Well, delay no more, because they are hosting an exhibit of some formerly secret CIA and KGB gadgets. reports, "For the first time, the public is getting a large scale view of the CIA's and KGB's real-life James Bond gadgets, from a replica of the Russians' deadly poison-dart umbrella to some of the Amercians' most ingeniously concealed cameras." The last 200 years of history of technology is reflected in these spy devices that go back to the Revolutionary War."

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  1. Goverment Intelligence = oxymoron by Alien54 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Spy gadgets from the other side are on display as well, including a replica of a large wooden seal of the United States that was a gift from the Soviet Union to Moscow's U.S. Embassy in 1945. It hung over the ambassador's desk for seven years before the listening device was discovered.

    And These are people who were suspicious of the Russians to begin with? jeeze.....

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  2. No poison umbrella by JohnBE · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Organizations like the CIA are so compartmentalized that I wouldn't expect anyone to make a definitive comment like 'CIA officials say there is no poision umbrella', probably translates to 'in my knowledge there is no poison umbrella'. For anyone, apart from the director, to say that there is no X or Y is wrong.

    Each employee probably knows his job section, the admin staff in his job section and nothing more. The canteens are seperated, the sections are seperated, even within sections the compartmentalization is such that one man can not have more knowledge than they need to complete their task.

    So my point is that their may well be no poison umbrella, but anonymous officials tend to spout the current political masters party line and know as little (or as much) about various departments as is dictated by overall security protocol. Which is good because it protects both the individual (can't cough up in interrogation or sell what he doesn't know) and therefore organization as a whole.

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  3. Only slashdot readers would find this funny. by phasic · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Yeah, "haha" Reagan has alzheimers and can't even remember his wife or close friends. "Haha" they have to care for him everyday hoping for only the slightest bit of recognition while enduring the pain that he will never again know who they are.

    Yep, this is something we should really poke fun at, since it's such a hilarious situation for everyone.