"How exploding rats went down a bomb" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 May 2017 3:55 p.m. PST |
"British secret agents went to war behind enemy lines armed with exploding soap, clogs, bottles of chianti, bicycle pumps, suitcases – and rats, documents hidden in Whitehall vaults for more than 50 years reveal.
They were among an ingenious collection of devices – many of which would have delighted James Bond – provided for agents of the special operations executive (SOE), the covert group set up to help resistance movements carry out sabotage and subversion, or as Churchill put it, "set Europe ablaze". Boffins at the SOE's laboratory at Aston House in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, produced an array of items in which the agents could conceal codes and messages – often written on silk – in collar studs, matchboxes, toothpaste tubes, and sponges. "Bundles of faggots" were provided to camouflage wireless sets…"
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| bsrlee | 26 May 2017 8:56 p.m. PST |
Another newspaper recycling old stories – there have been several books on just this subject published over the last 20 or so years. Going a bit further back, the exploding rats even made it into the original 'Guns of Navarone'. |
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