CIA Had A Plan To Turn Middle East Children Against Osama Bin Laden: Devil Dolls!
Washington Post- For more than a decade, the CIA has deployed drones, satellites, spies, informants and tracking devices to thwart al-Qaeda in Pakistan. The spy agency also considered a plan to wage war with toys. Beginning in about 2005, the CIA began secretly developing a custom-made Osama bin Laden action figure, according to people familiar with the project. The faces of the figures were painted with a heat-dissolving material, designed to peel off and reveal a red-faced bin Laden who looked like a demon, with piercing green eyes and black facial markings. The goal of the short-lived project was simple: spook children and their parents, causing them to turn away from the actual bin Laden. The code-name for the bin Laden figures was “Devil Eyes,” and to create them the CIA turned to one of the best minds in the toy business, said those familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the project publicly.
I always think it’s great when stories like this come out after the fact. That might sound odd but it gives us a glimpse in to the CIA that we never ever get in real time. They’re so damn secretive and I hate secrets. I want to know what’s going on. They would have never let this story leak at the time because of what it tells us. What exactly does this latest story tell us about what the CIA was doing back in 2005 in terms of catching bin Laden? It tells us that they had no fucking idea where he was. Like no clue. Zip, zilch, none. Drastic times call for drastic measures. In the article it says they had deployed drones, satellites, spies, informants and other tracking devices and still couldn’t find him. Not even a scent. But when you get to the point of looking for the biggest fucking asshole dip shit terrorist in the world and say, “Maybe we should make devil dolls of him and make their children scared of him?”, you’re really lost. I appreciate the creative thinking but that’s simply no good. You never want an idea like that to go up on the drawing board as a real option.. That’s no man’s land. Luckily we killed that ass hole a few years later because I gotta say, I’m not confident that plan “Devil Eyes” was going to give us any real results.