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Here are a few of the coolest and best spy tools throughout history!
10 - Monopoly
While Monopoly is traditionally thought of as an excruciatingly boring game that often pits family members against one another, it’s actually served a much greater purpose.
Soon after the game was created in 1934, the world went to wore again. The Germans, believe it or not, allowed the Red Cross to bring in humanitarian aid to their prisoners. This included games. So the Allies, or more specifically, M19, created escape kits concealed within Monopoly games. What looked like playing pieces were actually compasses and files. Real money was hidden under the fake money and maps were placed inside the board game itself. According to The Atlantic, M19 chose Monopoly, because their U.K manufacturer, John Waddington, had mastered a technology that allowed them to print using silk. This provided a huge strategic advantage because silk is much more durable than paper, and doesn’t make any noise when being folded or used. Soldiers were instructed to look for monopoly board games in their care packages in the event that they were captured and to destroy the games once the material were extracted. By some estimates, thousands of allied soldiers escaped using this method.
9 - Welrod MK2 Variant
This is the sort of thing you see in spy films. This variant of the Welrod MK 2 was essentially a bun up someone’s sleeves. I’m sure you guys can figure out why someone would want something like this! While it looked rather innocent, like a flashlight maybe, the MK2 could be deadly from up to a few yards. Which is pretty much enough for a trained agent. But most of the time, the agent would get next to the target, quietly slide the MK2 out of his sleeve and boom…...game over for someone. Not only was the MK2 sleek and easy to conceal, it was quiet. That meant a spy could do his deed and nonchalantly leave before people realized what had happened. And as the name suggests, the MK2 was the second model. It was an improvement from the MK I in that it didn’t need to be cocked before use, so it was easier to use. According to the UK’s National Archives, these weapons were a game changer back during WWII. While Germany was invading all over Europe, Britain set up the Special Operation Executive. These guys’ jobs were to go into occupied territory, spread propaganda and generally wreak havoc, such as blowing up railways and disposing of important enemy targets. The MK II was a big help with the latter!
8- Sedgley Glove Bun
The Sedgley Glove Bun is quite literally a hand Bun. Designed for the U.S Navy, this bad boy fit onto a glove, which could easily be concealed by a long sleeve. It would fire a bullet whoever’s wear it would throw a punch! In theory, upon impact, a single shot would be fired. As cool as that sounds, reloading was a complicated process. It meant that rotating the barrel upward, ejecting the empty round, placing a new one in there, and then doing the whole balling of the fist and punching the guy again. In other words, you gotta make that first shot count. With that in mind, only a “handful” of these buns were issued. Ha, get it?!?! Okay, okay, bad jokes aside, anywhere from 50 to a couple hundred of these were “handed” out and there’s no official record this thing putting away anyone for good. However, that doesn’t mean it never happened though!
7 - Playing Card Maps
In a lot of old war movies, it seems like there was always people playing card games to pass the time. Apparently this was a pretty common thing. In fact, during World Wore II, Bicycle playing cards joined forces with U.S and British Intelligence agencies to create a special kind of playing card. These cards, when wet, would peel apart and reveal escape routes to Allied Lines. Remember what I said earlier, the Red Cross could distribute games.
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