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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    Name an odd number that doesn't have an 'e' in it.
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    Half, it's not divisible by two.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
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    Spies Like Us? Pigeons CIA 1960- 1970s

    Acoustic Kitty involved placing listening devices inside a cat.
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    Even an Aussie was involved "One file details training using Canadian falcons out on a boat before mentioning they had tried using a cockatoo. "We are completely in the dark as to what the possibilities are in regard to this critter," the author writes."

    CIA unveils Cold War spy-pigeon missions - BBC News

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    Bugger me! That is a coincidence Diver.


    I am 2/3rds the way through the book "Spy Catcher" by the late Peter Wright, Asst Director of MI5 where he describes some of the way out methods used by MI5, CIA & MI6 to get the job done.

    How Britain ever got to participate in the victory of WW2 & the Cold War is beyond me. Some of the cockups by MI6 were hilarious. Dad's Army could have done it better.

    Don't recall parrots being used though, but to each his own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    I am 2/3rds the way through the book "Spy Catcher" by the late Peter Wright,
    I found and bought that book at a Salvos store last week. Yet to start reading it.

    You may recall Malcolm Turnbull, then a youngish lawyer, represented the publishers in the legal fight to publish the book.
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    Yep I seem to recall it was on for young & old/all at the time.


    I have a "smallish" bookcase & have been slowly reading through them over the last 6 or 7 months. I hope that ain't a bad omen.

    'Spitfire' by Jeffrey Quill, Test Pilot.. 'Muscle & Pluck forever'. The story of the South Australian Fire Brigade from it's inception until a few years ago. 'Apache Dawn'. the true story of a couple of UK Apache Sqdns in Helmand Province. Tim Bowden's book 'One Crowded Hour' about his friend Neil Davis, War Correspondent & Battlefield Photographer killed in Bangkok during a bit of a revolt, 'HMAS Sydney' & it's discovery off the WA Coast & of course 'Spy Catcher' & much much more.

    One I would like to have really kept but loaned it to an Ex RAAF Lancaster Crew Member for an old times sake gesture was a lovely A4 size book on the Lancaster with lots of images & text. God only knows what happened to that but I guess his family got it when he died. Have never seen another copy & cannot recall it's title nor where the bloke lived.

    Funnily enough some of these books were given to me as Birthday presents over many years & I have only just got around to reading them.

    No no no, I am not an extremely slow reader, I just put them down & never picked them up again until recently.

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    Ancient Australia was home to 'strange' marsupial giants, scientists find

    Ancient Australia was home to 'strange' marsupial giants, scientists find | Science | The Guardian

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    According to America's PBS a lot of lobsters going to China are actually American, despite the trade war, as Canada allows them to be called Canadian if caught in the North American Fishery so the Canadian wholesalers are buying them up on the US side.

    "The American lobster is a species of lobster found on the Atlantic coast of North America, chiefly from Labrador to New Jersey. It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, or Maine lobster. It can reach a body length of 64 cm, and a mass of over 20 kilograms, making it not only the heaviest crustacean in the world, but also the heaviest of all living arthropod species...." from Wikipedia.
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    A hundred years ago (in December) Arthur Long made the first flight from Tasmania to the mainland, actually from Stanley to Port Melbourne, with a short unscheduled) stop in a paddock near Torquay to top up the oil.

    His plane, Boulton Paul P9 had been bought by him in the UK after he was demobbed from the RAF/RFC and shipped home to Hobart. Despite being a new model, it had a prewar engine, the RAF-1 , first run in 1913. An unusual design (largely copied from Renault), it drove the large four blade propeller from the camshaft reduction gear, and was rated at 92hp from 8.8l, although this aircraft may have had a later version that produced 108hp.
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