CIA Declassifies Pages From Their Cookbook 119
AngryNick writes "The Washington Post reports today on the declassification of some of the CIA's oldest secrets: Do you want to open sealed envelopes without getting caught? According to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central Intelligence Agency: 'Mix 5 drams copper acetol arsenate. 3 ounces acetone and add 1 pint amyl alcohol (fusil-oil). Heat in water bath — steam rising will dissolve the sealing material of its mucilage, wax or oil.... Do not inhale fumes.'"
Re:If it's been declassified, it's not useful anym (Score:5, Insightful)
A general rule of spooks . . . we'll tell you how we spied 100 years ago . . . but not how we do it today . . .
The joke is not that this is public today - but that it was still considered worth keeping secret yesterday.
Re:Useful for something (Score:5, Insightful)
All teenagers are idiots. Most adults are, too. The ones who survive into adulthood are merely the lucky ones, and it's hit and miss as to which ones grow out of their stupidity.
Ideas of social Darwinism are for morons.