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This technology has been used by James Bond, Batman and many such bad-asses!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...

I always thought that was SFX, highly surprised to see that it is real so hence this post. Low expectations :)

CIA was pretty out there in general between the end of World War II and the end of Vietnam. This is actually pretty prosaic for them in that period - the sort of nonsense they got up to, you'd think the whole research directorate was dipping into the Ultra program's LSD supply.

I presume that you've heard about the glorious Project Acoustic Kitty?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

What the hell, why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

The Russians developed that first.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev

> you'd think the whole research directorate was dipping into the Ultra program's LSD supply.

You say this as if it isn't an extremely decent possibility, heh.

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