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>>scrps+(OP)
How covert is staring at someone’s shoes trying to identify slight variations?

>>ferros+hz
I sometimes wonder if FBI and other agencies release fake information so we all look out for them rather than their actual secret methods.

>>search+1B
True story : I was devastated to learn that eating carrots for enhancing night vision was a WWII British hoax to confuse the Germans.

I spent the better part of my teenage years eating raw carrots to be a better Ninja!

>>jmnico+SH
> Decades later rumors swirled that the British Royal Air Force pushed that message as a cover-up for the recently adopted radar technology they were secretly relying on for their nighttime skirmishes.

> whilst the [British] Air Ministry were happy to go along with the story [of carrot-improved vision], they never set out to use it to fool the Germans.

> The German intelligence service were well aware of our ground-based radar installation and would not be surprised by the existence of radar in aircraft. In fact, the RAF were able to confirm the existence of German airborne radar simply by fitting commercial radios into a bomber and flying over France listening to the various radio frequencies!

Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-c...

I wasn't however able to find if there is any reason for the british to push such a message if it wasn't to confuse the germans.

>>ahmedf+SI
> I wasn't however able to find if there is any reason for the british to push such a message if it wasn't to confuse the germans.

Could it have had something to do with rationing? Perhaps they were trying to increase carrot consumption.

>>messe+SL
Yep, that's what I thought too, but had no way of confirming it.

It can also be that they wanted citizens to cultivate more of it in their home gardens for its nutritional values. But either way, I have no data to confirm it.