CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook
AngryNick writes "The Washington Post reports today on the declassification of some of the CIA's oldest secrets: Do you want to open sealed envelopes without getting caught? According to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central Intelligence Agency: 'Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath — steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.... Do not inhale fumes.'"
what if I've got nasal congestion? This stuff ought to eat through that lickety-split if I inhale the fumes, right?
While hardly anyone sends info via letters anymore, I bet a bunch of teenage amateur meth manufacturers are getting ideas for new drugs.
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Wow, 6 documents from 100 years ago. We'll find out about Kennedy any day now!
That one I learned as a kid: either orange juice or sugar dissolved in water makes invisible ink. Heat the paper with a clothes iron to develop.
These documents predate the CIA. Therefore the recipes aren't CIA recipes.
Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil).
This is sounding like the "anarchist cookbook" which had made up recipes intended to blow up potential bombers rather than cooking up the real thing.
Right up there with "get high from banana peels"
You want a solvent for mucilage, try ethanol fumes. I have no idea how to test it because envelope manufacturers have not used biological mucilage for longer than I've been alive... Maybe a museum or an old relative has an envelope they'd let you mess with?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
If someone is opening my mail, by all means inhale drop dead.
This recipe is terrible, and tastes like shit. Conclusion: The CIA's cooking sucks.
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CIA + Cookbook makes me think Culinary Institute of America. I was all ready for culinary secrets...
Geocaching technology is YEARS ahead of any of this stuff.
Why, I bet you can't even find the camoed ammo can hidden in this post!
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A general rule of spooks . . . we'll tell you how we spied 100 years ago . . . but not how we do it today . . .
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A general rule of spooks . . . we'll tell you how we spied 100 years ago . . . but not how we do it today . . .
Except the principles of modern espionage go back hundreds if not thousands of years. Do you think brush-passes or dead drops were modern inventions? How about encryption and codes? While today's technology includes stuff spies could have only dreamed of 100 years ago, the fundamentals and basics are exactly the same.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
A general rule of spooks . . . we'll tell you how we spied 100 years ago . . . but not how we do it today . . .
The joke is not that this is public today - but that it was still considered worth keeping secret yesterday.
My god just use pgp already.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
Do they have a good chili recipe?
I thought we were finally going to get the cookbook the blind folks who work at the CIA snack stand in Langley use. Total gyp.
What would Richard Feynman do, if he were here right now? He'd do some math and he'd follow through!
The Kanamits are not amused.
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It seems he does, Pidgeon Get Parcel... Pidgeon Give Parcel.
He said 'trusty', so I assume it's a pretty good pigeon.
All of them are re: the recipe for the GERMANSâ(TM) invisible ink in WWI (samples, methods for detecting, etc.). What ârecent advancement in techâ(TM) suddenly made this no longer secret?
Notice that theyâ(TM)re stamped âoeExempt from automatic declassificationâ in 1978. In 1999, the agency rejected a Freedom of Information Act request to release the six documents, asserting that doing so âoecould be expected to damage the national security.â Really?
I recognize as well as anyone the need for secret documents staying secret, but someone needs to be bitch-slapped for keeping âoelemon juice/vinegar secret inkâ recipe almost perpetually secret (yes, one of them the primary ingredient is acetic acid). Thatâ(TM)s just silly.
-Styopa
I believe an anorexic chip fabricator would deliver the requested flavor combination.
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It works on RSA too.
You don't make bombs with breast milk. Everybody knows it's the secret sweetener of jCola!
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The pigeon was best man at his wedding, IIRC.
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Oh, come on! I'm a regular viewer of Burn Notice. What's the CIA going to tell me that I don't already know?
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No, the real joke is on you. Why? Because the CIA and all other government and private (RIAA) acronyms can do today in plain sight and most importantly, legally what they had to do behind your back 50 years ago.
Give them credit for turning lemons into lemonade.
At least they weren't 'colonized by wankers'.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
http://www.foia.cia.gov/search.asp
Does it say anything about selling drugs to the Crips and Bloods to finance their black ops projects?
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