"The Real life James Bond gadgets invented by M19..." Topic

…spies in WW2 including compasses in dices and daggers in pens that were smuggled into POW Camps inside board games.

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"dices"?

My two older brothers each had a chess set that looked remarkably like the one in the article. Played them many, many times. I don't recall any spyware or escape tools in them.

MI9, not M19

Please give a warning before linking to the paper that supported Hitler.

One of the the things that was done to avoid detection was to make the threads of hidden screw on tops 'left hand' so they tightened the wrong way. This meant when the Germans tested them they didn't open them. There was massive attention to detail.

Churchill saw the Germans as thinking in straight lines, and he wanted people who thought in twists – if you read accounts about Fortitude and the Twenty Committee you can see this. These sort of accounts are always more interesting, in any period, that the actual battle accounts that many wargamers get hung up on, which do tend to be very same-y.

Please give a warning before linking to the paper that supported Hitler.

Would that be around the same time that The (then Manchester) Guardian was enthusing about the benefits of eugenics?

I suspect that both newspapers have had a few staff changes since the 1930s.

Perhaps, but the first linked paper is commonly referred to as the Daily Nazi for its current stance, not just its historic one.

I've never heard of it as being referred to as such, I think you're exagerrating there. Now had you been referring to some of it's readers instead some people might have a tendency to agree possibly.