CIA invented & used the device in 1960s to count people & supplies moving down Ho Chi Minh Trail from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.
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Many of the Laotian trail watchers we recruited could not read or write, so the device featured “pictograms”.
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#Elephant Counter pictograms represented: Troops Trucks Carts Bicycles Tanks Cannons Small artillery Missiles Donkeys & sometimes elephants! -
Alongside each pictogram was a knob that could be set to a number. Data could be transmitted to an airplane by activating a toggle switch.
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don't forget the pet rocks!Listening devices!Also the fake bushes!
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shits
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when will you do Lee Harvey Oswald's mini CIA issued spy camera that you have been hiding for 50+ YR's?
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@GreatDismal that's pretty neat.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Is this the gizmo that changes votes ?
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. Ingenious. Betcha from paper concept to working prototype took less than 2 months of can-do engineering. Gotta love CIA autonomy!
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So many tricjs of display, yet the Agency was always compromised, penetrated and made endless mindless mistakes.
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it's called a telegraph tactometer
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