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Pop Quiz: All About Counter Intelligence

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1.

According to the findings of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which of the following was not a method the CIA considered using to kill Fidel Castro?

a poisoned wet suit
an exploding seashell
an anthrax-coated baseball

2.

Why was American Francis Gary Powers arrested by the Soviet Union in 1960?

invasion of Soviet airspace
inciting unrest in Moscow
rying to climb the Berlin Wall

3.

Before his execution by the British, American Revolutionary spy Nathan Hale's last words were:

"I shall return."
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
"I have not yet begun to fight."

4.

How much money did the CIA spend researching psychic phenomena between 1972 and 1977?

$50,000
$750,000
none

5.

What was the name of the machine the Nazis used to encrypt secret messages for transmission during World War II?

ENIGMA
MAGIC
MYSTERY

6.

In a speech to the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have in hand a list of 205 State Department employees who were sympathetic to the Communist party. What did his "list" actually consist of?

old bank statements
a recipe for brownies
blank pages

7.

Prior to 1945, what was the name of Japan's secret police force?

Thought Police
SMERSH
Nikkei

8.

Corona was the first successful American reconnaissance satellite. How were the pictures taken by it retrieved?

They were fished from the ocean floor by submarine.
They were caught in midair by aircraft trailing enormous trapezes.
They were beamed back to a receiving station in Antarctica.