Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - February 4, 2025 [scampydog]

It is tough to pick a favorite EO or event since Inauguration Day, but what is easy to say is that this has been the happiest, most impressive first couple of Presiential weeks in a lifetime. Drop a comment about your favorite events so far.

J6 Pardons.

Plenty of EO's to sift through.

Spies and the Laptop Lie. Spies? Let's get to the ONT fun.

Hello good people. Tuesday ONT of cloak and dagger. Burn after reading. A Soooooper Seeeekret Mystery Click or two to be found.

Domestic enemy. Conspiracy to steal Federal Reserve secrets for the benefit of the People's Republic of China. China holds more US debt than any other nation and consistently makes effort to manipulate our economy.

"The Chinese Communist Party has expanded its economic espionage campaign to target U.S. government financial policies and trade secrets in an effort to undermine the U.S. and become the sole superpower," said FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Sundberg. "Today's indictment represents the FBI's unwavering commitment to protect U.S. national security interests and U.S. jobs and to bring to justice those who are willing to betray their country for personal gain."

Greenland you say? "Project Iceworm"

The City Under The Snow. US Army lair in Cold War Greenland.

Destined to house nearly 200 residents, the top-secret missile base in northwestern Greenland, far north of the Arctic Circle, was publicly touted as a "remote research community" under the auspices of the Army Polar Research and Development Center.

Have any read this? Review in comments, if so.

LSD and the CIA.

Project MK-Ultra

Unsurprisingly, the CIA conducted the project with the utmost secrecy, even giving it multiple code names. And when it finally ended in the 1970s, most of the records pertaining to it were destroyed on the orders of the director of the CIA himself - that is, all but a small misfiled cache accidentally left intact.

The program was quickly headed by chemist and poison expert Sidney Gottlieb, who was known in covert circles as the "Black Sorcerer."

More ghoul reading here on Project MK-Ultra Some pics of documents that survived the scrubbing.

Scytales.

One of the earliest known encryption devices is the scytale, a tool used by the ancient Spartans for secure military communications. The scytale's simplicity belies its significant influence on the history of cryptography, marking one of the first known applications of transposition ciphers-a technique still in use today.

Tuesday ONT Secret Code - Word Scramble.

IM oarmo n

ONT Intermission. What are your favorite spy movies?

List to get your brain going.

Bruce Lee, baby.

Life in prison? Really?

A mole in the CIA. Aldrich 'Rick' Ames.

A CIA agent who became a Soviet spy, Ames' betrayal proved devastating for American assets in the U.S.S.R. Between 1985 and his arrest in 1994, Ames revealed the names of every intelligence agent he knew of, leading to the deaths of at least 10 people.

Kiss of Death

Part of the new International Spy Museum collection in Washington, D.C., the 4.5mm single shot weapon disguised as a tube of lipstick

Former Israeli spies describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah.

One agent said the operation started 10 years ago using walkie-talkies laden with hidden explosives, which Hezbollah didn't realize it was buying from Israel, its enemy. The walkie-talkies were not detonated until September, a day after booby-trapped pagers were set off.

Spies on this day, February 4, 1777.

George Washington Spy Letter

For your care & trouble in this business I agree on behalf of the public to allow you Fifty Dollars pr.

Kalendar Month-& herewith give you a warrant on the Paymaster Genl. For the sum of Five hund. Dollars to pay those whom you may find necessary to Imploy

Spy ONT and Mata Hari.

Endless historical debate whether she was actually a spy or just got caught up in the wash, this is the ONT, details be damned.

The real question is: Where does the Mata Hari pinball machine rank on the all time scale?

Not often seen Mata Hari photographs

Tonight's ONT brought to you by Ro-Sham-Bo. Spy vs. Spy style

This ONT is posted with a nod to NSA Bob. Bob or Roberta? Those Agency types are sneaky like that. Send disappearing ink, bug detectors, neuralyzers, AND Rosa Kleb's stabby shoe to: scampydog at proton dot me

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