CIA Shows Off (Formerly) Super-Secret Spy Goodies

Velcroman1 writes "Last week, [the CIA] launched a revamped website with links to YouTube and Flickr containing Agency historical videos and picture galleries. 'The idea behind these improvements is to make more information about the agency available to more people, more easily,' Director Panetta said in a statement. 'The CIA wants the American people and the world to understand its mission and its vital role in keeping our country safe.' In terms of pure coolness the Flickr stream takes the cake — including never-before-seen gallery of special agent supergadgets."

Re:Congratulations

[FriendlyLurker]

'The CIA wants the American people and the world to understand its mission and its vital role in keeping our country safe.'

The CIA is trying to regain some credibility/reputation which has rapidly gone downhill since the Iraq war. News and leaks from Wikileaks and other sources keeps throwing their smelly shit into the fan [washingtonpost.com] for all to see. It seems to be nearly every day now [google.com] we hear of a new scandal, or some gross misuse [heralddeparis.com] of our taxpayers funds [smh.com.au]. But never fear, they have a plan: Apart from this new "Spy goodies" for geeks section to woo us with pretty trinkets, they have also thought of the children - adding games and quizzes to their website - helping them become your all American family-friendly organization again. Further, soon there will be no more bad news thanks to the CIA teaming up with the Democrats to clean out those with faulty moral compasses [wsws.org] - so we can all live safe and ignorant again.

Re:SR-71 top speed

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

OK, found the links. The chart of CIT-limited speed versus outside temperature is at http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-10.php [sr-71.org]. There are envelope curves at http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/5/5-9.php [sr-71.org] which you could imagine extrapolating past the limits in the manual.

Spy Museum

[Sir Holo]

This all looks like stuff from the "Spy Museum" in Washington DC. Very cool gadgetry there, and much more of it than this paltry slideshow has. Better-written commentary, too.

Go there!