When the CIA launched its in-house R&D lab in 2020, the agency announced it would conduct "multidisciplinary research, development, testing, and engineering to address new challenges" and "adapt, improve, or accelerate the production of existing solutions."
Exploding pens and fluorescent foxes were just two of the schemes the O.S.S. tried in their quest to best Axis powers, according to a new book, “The Dirty Tricks Department.”
A feisty couple banks on the colorful history of a Beatty-area brothel drawing visitors to what’s now a regular old bed-and-breakfast SCOTTY’S JUNCTION Nigel White recalls that day in 2018 when he returned home to Las Vegas from a business gallivant across Nevada’s outback. He gave his wife, Jennifer, good news: He’d found the perfect property to establish the rural bed and breakfast he’d always dreamed about.But there were caveats. The place was isolated, 150 miles north of Las Vegas, a half-hour past the town of Beatty, its address along U.S. Highway 95 the very definition of rustic: Mile Marker 92. The other issue? The place was once a working brothel, where randy men paid to play.Known as the Shady Lady, the place boasted a colorful reputation as a cathouse that liked to push the limits. Briefly, in 2009, the Shady Lady featured an L.A. porn actor who billed himself as the state’s first male prostitute, a self-proclaimed “prosti-dude.”Nigel liked the idea of comm