poison pills and needles

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RonaldS842  wrote:  "...............but I'd like to know if anything 
has been written on the subject............." 
  Ron; 
Never meant to sound like Nancy Pelozi, or to indicate that I was sure that 
it could NEVER have happened ........just that at least in the military it is 
so unlikely to make it less likely than Capt Kirk returning thru time and 
abducting a white whale! 
 I have a rather extensive personal library on intel and SpecOps from WWI up 
to Desert Storm and I have not read anything about poison pills or poison 
needles outside of the early U-2 flights.  I can't speak from experience 
about what may or may not have taken place during the KW since I was only 13 
when the fighting stopped, but can assure you that my period of service began 
in 1956 and I retired in 1983, and as far as the military went, I think I 
would have been "issued" a pill on some of my operations but never was.  No 
one that I worked with or knew had anything like that presented to them or 
knew or even heard of anyone else being issued a pill or threatened with 
being exterminated in case the bad guys got through.  And all the thermite 
grenades were for the documents! This is not to say that the CIA in it's 
early days didn't run around with some pills in their pockets - although 
there is no evidence or testimony that the OSS utilized any poison pills for 
its agents, (although in WW II it was actually available) ........and in 
these past 10 to 15 years where everyone is letting it all hang out and 
writing books, I find it difficult to believe that someone wouldn't have by 
now blurted it out.......tons of embarrassing material is available now on 
CIA operations, much of it thru FAS - Federation of American Scientists   
FedAmericanScientists  (certainly not my favorite outfit, but they do have a 
good collection of released documents!) and they would certainly be one of 
the first to make anything like that public, even from as far back as the 
early 50's!   
I refer you to my personal saying that, "there is no such thing as a secret 
as long as more than one person knows about it"..........
If there were any poison pills or needles floating around during the KW, I'd 
think MIke Haas or Ed Evenhoe would know about it!  
As far as you being BS'd by anyone in authority, well, I'll let someone else 
take on THAT one !!!      


TONY  NEWCOMB- (SOA-570L) (SFA-450L) (AFIO-5746L) (POVA#168)
State Outreach Coordinator, VETERANS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM of ILLINOIS
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      have almost died. For those that have fought for it, life has a special 
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