#ColdWitch History Lessons

Insecotocoptors, Robofish, and Microdots: CIA Spy Gadgets of the Cold War

If you thought James Bond had cool tech toys, get a load of some of this stuff.

And here we though the cast of The Witch Who Came In From The Cold was inventive...The C.I.A., long regarded as one of the world's most secretive governmental organizations, is famously rumored to have developed many, many hi-tech spy devices. Now, for the first time, the C.I.A. has released images of and information about the super sweet spy gear they designed during the Cold War. Sorcery is great and all, but perhaps the Consortium of Ice would benefit from some of these gadgets:

A modified ladies make-up compact that doubles as a concealment device. Tilting the mirror at the correct angle reveals the code.
The CIA created "Unmanned Underwater Vehicle" fish as part of a study of aquatic robot technology. They created a communications system in the body and a propulsion system in the fish's tail. (An operator on land controlled it by a wireless line-of-sight radio handset.)
This Dragonfly "Insectocopter," invented by the CIA's Office of Research and Development in the 1970s, essentially served as a very tiny Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. One of the first-ever UAVs - long before the acronym entered the popular lexicon - this project pressed forward to test the feasibility of gathering intelligence collection by miniaturized platforms.

Check out more of these covert devices here!

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