CIA, n.Trivia

The CIA once created a gun that could shoot darts that caused heart attacks. Upon penetration of the skin, the dart only left a tiny red dot. The poison itself worked rapidly and then denatured quickly afterwards.

Beards are important to public image — in the 60’s, the CIA came up with a plan make his beard fall out with Thallium salts.

In the 1960s, the CIA spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets. The cat was hit by a taxi.

The CIA has its own U.S. Postal ZIP code

in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the…