Resistance Isn’t Futile: Explosive Edible Flour, Cigarette Guns and Other WWII OSS Tricks [Cia Spytech]
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To kick off our CIA gadget series, I’m starting with something from the beginning, well, before the beginning: covert weaponry sent to resistance fighters behind enemy lines during WWII. They thought of all kinds of disruptive technologies, including exploding edible flour, cigarette-shaped single-use guns and other discrete but explodey gadgets.
The Firefly was a “pocketable” explosive cylinder that came with its own time delay fuse, designed for dropping into gas tanks. (If used improperly, it would have given new meaning to the word “hotpants.”) The Limpet was a submersible explosive that latched onto the hull of a boat and blew a 25-square-foot hole. Best of all, its timer could be set for not just hours, but days.
The OSS .22 caliber cigarette pistol above was for close ranges and single uses. One of Spycraft’s authors, Keith Melton, explains that it might have been best used as a distraction, if not a lethal […]
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