“Unveiled: The Shadowy Missions That Intelligence Agencies Tried to Bury Forever!”
The Cold War In The Bedroom
Let’s just face it, as powerful as the CIA is, they’re also extremely petty. During the Cold War, they had many plans and strategies to ensure the Russians thought they were bigger and better. Literally.
One plan included dropping oversized condoms into the Soviet Union. That seems innocent enough, but the CIA actually marked the condoms as “medium” so that the Russians would think less of themselves when they put the condom on.
John Steinbeck’s Taxes
Nobel Prize winning novelist John Steinbeck was connected to many leftists and labor unions. As a result, the FBI exhaustively researched the author but he never had any prosecutable skeletons. To make his life miserable, the FBI arranged the IRS to audit his taxes every year for the rest of his life.
Steinbeck was so irritated that he offered his services to the CIA while he went to Europe in order to get them off his back. The Director of the FBI and Steinbeck met, the arrangement still remains a mystery.
That Backfired Immensely
In 1977 at the height of the Cold War, the CIA found out that they had a mole in their midst. He was a simple technical agent named William Kampiles and he stole top-secret spy satellite manuals from their headquarters.
He ended up selling the manual to the Soviets from $3,000. He realized he made a mistake and told the CIA about what he had done hoping they would use him as a double agent. They didn’t, and Kampiles was sentenced to 40 years in jail.
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