• Interesting, so a bullet would not fire but probably launched with some kind of a spring, otherwise it would melt quickly.
    • Compressed gas is more likely, but I find it hard to believe that it'd be effective at 100m
      • It's got to retain sufficient shape/integrity/speed of the "dart" after 100m to penetrate clothing and skin cleanly. I can't believe that this is actually that useful a delivery mechanism compared to something simpler such as the infamous polonium umbrella etc
  • > targeting anti-American leaders such as Congo's Patrice Lumumba, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro

    Ahah yes, now I guess being against children getting their hands chopped off by the Belgian is anti-American. And naturally Castro is a dictator for having liberated the island, making it into a sovereign Republic.

    The author of this article is truly depraved.

    • fwiw I read it as a statement of the CIAs historical position, not the authors own view.
  • RIP Pope
    • Really? You think that’s the reason?