Direct link to one of the photos: https://www.fieggen.com/Dont_Link/CIALacing1a.jpg
> 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.
> Every Tuesday, shortly after 7:00, a British MI6 officer would take a morning stroll at the Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. He would pass outside a designated bakery at exactly 7:24 a.m. local time. If he saw Gordievsky standing outside the bakery holding a grocery bag, it meant that the double agent was requesting to be exfiltrated as a matter of urgency. Gordievsky would then have to wait outside the bakery until a second MI6 officer appeared, carrying a bag from the Harrods luxury department store in London. The man would also be carrying a Mars bar (a popular British candy bar) and would bite into it while passing right in front of Gordievsky. That would be a message to him that his request to be exfiltrated had been received.
If you have a military background it is completely normal. Beyond boot polishing, how one ties one's shoes can identify their nationality, background and even trade. They don't think twice about looking at someone's shoes.
There is an old method for spotting a US marine: Ask them to change their socks. The guy who takes one sock off at a time, changing one sock before even untying the second shoe, that's a probable marine. The guy who doesn't actually tie his laces, that does a strange wrap-around-then-tuck thing... US army. The guy who skips a few holes in the middle: air force.
Think I am exaggerating? search youtube for military shoe tying vids: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=military+shoe+l...
> Suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta was seen repeatedly by witnesses using his Hotmail account at public libraries in Florida to surf the Internet, downloading what appeared to be pictures of children and scenes of the Middle East.[1]
> Many of the hijackers were frequent visitors to libraries and internet cafes in Florida, where they are believed to have received their final orders in coded message.[2]
Pre-9/11:
> Through weeks of interviews with U.S. law-enforcement officials and experts, USA TODAY has learned new details of how extremists hide maps and photographs of terrorist targets — and post instructions for terrorist activities — on sports chat rooms, pornographic bulletin boards and other popular Web sites.[3]
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20011005232014/https://abcnews.g...
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2001/10/11/iomart_cashes_in_on_w... ([1] and [2] found via https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/3494/steganography-age-terro...)
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20030606200613/http://www.usatod... (found via https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11308369.pdf)
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years.
For the reference: https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aj6MYgw_700b_v1.jpg
https://external-preview.redd.it/UMjBaFaE-dFYMu_VZ8nKO4_tj0E...
http://www.linkbcit.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Finland-bu...
That’s this lacing technique: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/commando-lacing.htm
Not sure why, but single knots always come undone for me pretty quickly - including the Ian Knot you linked. I used to do a double knot and now the secure Ian Knot.
Since you've read about knots I'm sure you know this, but it's worth mentioning for others in the same situation - if you find your laces come undone very easily with a simple traditional knot it may be that you're not balancing the starting knot and the finishing bow, leading to a "granny knot" - https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes?...
