MI6 - You couldn't make it up!
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:21 am
You couldn't make it up!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... e-ink.html
"MI6 'used bodily fluids as invisible ink'
British intelligence services experimented with using semen as an invisible ink to write top-secret letters, it has been disclosed.
A diary entry belonging to a senior member of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has revealed that during the First World War it was discovered that the bodily fluid could act as an effective invisible ink.
In June 1915, Walter Kirke, deputy head of military intelligence at GHQ France, wrote in his diary that Mansfield Cumming, the first chief (or C) of the SIS was "making enquiries for invisible inks at the London University".
In October he noted that he "heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen", which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... e-ink.html
"MI6 'used bodily fluids as invisible ink'
British intelligence services experimented with using semen as an invisible ink to write top-secret letters, it has been disclosed.
A diary entry belonging to a senior member of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) has revealed that during the First World War it was discovered that the bodily fluid could act as an effective invisible ink.
In June 1915, Walter Kirke, deputy head of military intelligence at GHQ France, wrote in his diary that Mansfield Cumming, the first chief (or C) of the SIS was "making enquiries for invisible inks at the London University".
In October he noted that he "heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen", which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available."
