CIA displays some of its spy gadgets

[dArKeR]

The CIA once built a mechanical dragonfly to carry a listening device but found small gusts of wind knocked it off course so it was never used in a spy operation.

THE AGENCY ALSO tested a 24-inch-long rubber robot catfish named “Charlie” capable of swimming inconspicuously among other fish and whose mission remains secret.
Charlie and the dragonfly were among spy gadgets displayed at CIA headquarters in an exhibit to mark the 40th anniversary of the Directorate of Science and Technology. It is not open to the public.

http://msnbc.com/news/986186.asp?0cv=CB20

What about the Dragonfly Mini Missile they shot down Wellstone's and Carnahan's planes with?

[Minstrel Boy]

1. a robot catfish? - I don't like the sound of this

A robot catfish, swimming inconspicuously among other fish, on a secret mission.
Does this mark a change in policy since Bush said that "humans and fish can coexist peacefully"?

[AndyTiedye]

3. translation

Humans that cross the BFEE can swim peacefully among the fishes.

[frank frankly]

2. yikes

and this is just the shit we know about. time to go hug a tree for me!

[tlb]

4. Check your singing Billy Bass

He may be reporting on you.

[lumpy]

5. More taxpayer money going into the pockets

of war-toy makers. Think of those acres of decaying warplanes in Nevada, dozens of tanks dumped into the pacific to build shoals, experimental vehicles that refuse to track in the mud. Think of the bread and butter & health care the world is doing without.

[gandalf]

6. All that sounds quite harmless and James-Bond-like

do they want to enhance their image?

Or do they expose gadgets related to their experiments with humans (drugs, interrogation and torture techniques and so on)?

[bobthedrummer]

7. You can hide nothing from the Thought Police

eom

[Khephra]

8. Read some early Bruce Sterling

Miniaturized "bugs" (both electronic and genetic mods) that are built cued into a specific target's DNA. Nasty stuff.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Monkeys are being trained to operate computers using thought.

Moving the cursor just by thinking about it. That's reality.

[bobthedrummer]

10. Some of this nanotechnology is used in the non-lethal arsenal

http://www.adacomp.net/~mcherney/nonlethal.html

[The_Gopher]

11. Spy Museum in DC is a must-see

really interesting history of espionage there