Comments on: Man Knowledge: 15 Cool Spy Concealments

By: MATT

MATT — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:40:22 +0000

WOW

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:14:41 +0000

A really good active concealment device I discovered this year in high school is simply the ball point pen. There’s actually quite of a bit of space between the ink tube and the inner walls of the pen. This has to be a pen that can be unscrewed and taken apart around the middle. From there, take a small slip of paper with a secret message (or test answers) on it and roll it tightly around the now exposed ink tube. Place back on the top of the pen, screw it on, and now you have a very discreet and fully functional pen message holder.
Oh, and the slip of paper has to be pretty small, or else it will wrap too thick around the ink tube and you won’t be able to click the pen, or even screw back on the top.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:18:46 +0000

The best thing a spy can use is camouflage to hide from his enemies. The best camouflage is the camouflage from a ghillie suit.

Any spy needs to have this.

http://ghillie.gknv.com/shop/shop.php?c=3592&n=3375301&i=B001IYZ5JS&x=Paintball_Sniper_4_Piece_Woodland_Ghillie_Suit_ML

By: Ilana

Ilana — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:54:58 +0000

Awesome article!

P.S. False coins are way older than that–there’s a mention of prisoners using them to hide small saws in Les Miserables, published in 1862.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:36:39 +0000

I love the website but couldn’t help but laugh when I read about the Canadian “spy coins”. The story I heard/read (it was big news here) was that an american with top clearance was visiting the great white north and found these coins in the cup holder after bringing them home and turning them in as suspected spy coins they discovered they were regular quarters put out for remembers ce day (Canadian veterans day) heres a picture of the coins.
http://www.google.ca/m/search?q=canadian+poppy+quarter&pbx=1&aq=0&oq=canadian%2520poppy%2520&aqi=g6-k15d0t0&fkt=3510&fsdt=8299&cqt=&rst=&htf=&his=&maction=&site=images&gl=ca&client=safari&source=mog&hl=en&csll=&action=&ltoken=6ad8fc6d#i=2

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:07:06 +0000

Loved this! I was kind of obsessed with espionage and spycraft in my late childhood/early teens, so was already aware of some of this, but still learned a lot.

By: Brent Pittman

Brent Pittman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:00:14 +0000

I recently hollowed out a hardback book to hide my kindle. Why buy a fancy kindle book cover, when you can make one yourself?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:22:35 +0000

This is a cool book along the same lines: How to Hide Anything Anywhere

http://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Anything-Michael-Connor/dp/0873642899

By: Seth B.

Seth B. — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:26:45 +0000

You can still buy the spy coins from ThinkGeek. They have a quarter and a half dollar.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/b308/

By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:03:57 +0000

I’m wearing my fake scrotum right now.