It looks like your typical junk , tool around on coastal waterway in Southeast Asia in the belated 1960s . recall of it in Apocalypse Now terminus : It was basically a water taxi for personnel office on highly classified mission . OK , so then say that classified missionary station is somehow compromise — here ’s what it await like when it literally blows its cover :
The fake gunwale on the rear of the hull flow by , and the masts come down ( hopefully not on someone ’s head ) . Suddenly , the boat is less encumbered , more free to speed out to afford sea where the upright ole USAF can supply equal air support . If you ’re found out , say Spycraft co - source Keith Melton , this would increase “ your hazard of living , ” which is nice . Boats like this were definitely in utilisation , though the CIA will not say how often , or in what specific situations .
Melton says the conception is similar to an earliest one , theQ Boat or Mystery Ship , a gunship masked as a merchant vessel used during World War I to lure sub to the control surface .
All of this CIA tech and much more like it is covered with great depth and pilus - raising anecdote inSpycraft , a raw book by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton , reviewed by us , and available for pre - order atAmazon .
https://gizmodo.com/cia-spy-gadgets-revealed-q-aint-got-nothin-on-langley-392289
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