New CIA Tech Museum: Spy Scat and Robo-Fish

PSaltyDS writes "According to this AP story, the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology is celebrating its 40th anniversary by revealing a few dozen of its secrets for a new museum inside its headquarters near Washington. When the CIA's secret gadget-makers invented a listening device for the Asian jungles, they disguised it so the enemy wouldn't be tempted to pick it up and examine it: The device looked like tiger droppings. Besides the jungle transmitter, the exhibits include a robotic catfish, a remote-controlled dragonfly and a camera strapped to the chests of pigeons and released over enemy targets in the 1970s. There is also an International Spy Museum in D.C. with more pics, including an early version of the Pigeon-Cam."

Comments

Where are they in the 24th century?

[PSaltyDS]

I have always wondered at the absence of such things in the various SciFi universes. The crew of the Enterprise, locked in a cell by this week's bad guy, is always free to build a "sub-space anti-tachyon field inversion beacon", or some such, out of Jordy's visor because there are NO bugging devices in any of the plots. "Nanites" and other nano-tech stuff run through several episodes, but somehow never get married up with so much as a security cam and a microphone in the Enterprise's brig. When you confine the Ferengi to a stateroom for trying to blow up your ship, shouldn't you at least keep an eye on them?

We win again

[Doc Ruby]

Thanks to its technological superiority, the CIA war in Vietnam was a stunning success. Combined with vehement Presidential and Congressional backing, the decade-long committment of massive troops, air superiority, and compelling kill-ratios turned the tide in Vietnam. We immediately brought the War on Communism to a healthy, decisive close, with millions of Vietnamese dancing in the streets to the tune of "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

Now our 21st Century CIA is again rising to the occasion in the War on Terrorism. Just as their partnership with justice in the War on Drugs has eliminated that scourge from the American prospect, our tech supremacy in Afghanistan and Iraq is swiftly delivering peace and freedom from the forces of fear. We can learn so much from the CIA museum, with its smart turds and omniscient birdbrains. With our arsenal and steely-eyed leaders, not to mention god on our side, American supremacy will remain as unsullied as it has been since the 1960s.