Joyika
108717
1021
42
Jun 5, 2022 11:21 AM
Joyika
108717
1021
42
DrKriegersClone
Did it fall out of favour on account of spending 2 minutes looking at the other guy's shoes to tell the codes apart was a bit of a giveaway?
BanGurHeaD
skipweasel
dogfavoriter
I like how none of the example patterns could be achieved on the shoe pictured.
comacomacomacomachameleon
[CITATION NEEDED]
dynskeet
How many agents were caught because they walked around bent over at the waist, peering at each other's shoes???
KaJuN
"Upon closer inspection these are loafers."
somewhatparanoidpanda
For the rest of us those all mean “I’m have stroke cal bondulance”
BlairT1
Amber lamps! Cah der Amber lamps!
arthurvanhoudt
Ehhm, the shoe shown has 8 holes, while the code have lace codes covering 12 holes. HOW?
TanithRosenbaum
data compression
kwyjiboner
Someone just learned how to use the Bevel and Emboss in Photoshop.
Rkhbusa
Upon closer inspection, these are loafers
oddmog
I mean, subtle but obvious are how codes work even NOW. Modern tech means handovers are WAY less fuss but ain't in the game, so, meh.
severice
"Help, my shoes keep falling off"
IthoughtitwasImGGRRRR
Seems like a sketchy communication method
ChadimusPrime69
Which shoe lace pattern is it for dealing crack or recuiting paedophiles?
muerdock
I like your shoe laces. Thanks I stole them from the President. (Now it's complete).
Qualtagh
lukeeoin365
So why does the show in the picture only have 4 holes per side if you per side for this code to work?
battlecows
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was created on September 18, 1947, when Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act
Imalwaysready
I could never be in the CIA for the simple reason that re-lacing an entire shoe is so annoying and way too much trouble to deal with.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
I just had to because my dog at one of the laces. Can confirm.
RichardValentine
Only the top two holes are important, the rest is a jumbled waste of effort. Hire me.
MithridateEupator
Yea dude - I didn't need to see your shoelaces to know there's another person with you
ThatGermanBlackDude
And everyone please thinks you're too stupid to tie your shoes.
Shuckeru
This must be BS
slackboy722000
Absolutely. You wouldn't have agents communicating with each other. The only communication would be with their handlers.
Grillparzer
They also stuck a radio transmitter into a cat. Who promptly got ran over.
TaintToucher
How do you say "I have a moderately priced wheel of cheese" in shoelace?
4vie
top holes, middle holes, and bottom holes only.
pwnz805
Imagine getting tossed in the gulag just cause you’re really shit at tying your shoes..
ReaperCDN
Hi, retired military vet here. We use explicitly non-visual codes. Visual ones are stupidly easy to pick up on. Especially things outside /1
ReaperCDN
the norm. If this is factually accurate, those were guards from Metal Gear. 2/2
ReaperCDN
Oh. It's possible this may not be referencing a prison setting. Would be much more innocuous in public since people don't stare at each /3
ReaperCDN
others feet (unless you're Ben Shapiro.) 4/4
scribetree
In fairness he’s just looking around at eye level.
IcamtSpelUkelele
rooik14
I did some digging. It wasn't standardized but it did happen. It was more an agreed on code between some agents during some missions 1/
rooik14
2/ declassified documents do reveal that they were used. As to their efficacy it's not really clear, but tbh it wouldn't be the weirdest
rooik14
3/3 thing the CIA got up to.
MapleSyrupMafia
Then velcro shoes messed it all up.
therealswanson
It's 1982 mid April and im sat on a island a spit away from the Artic circle, its fucking cold, raining and 15 year old boys keep shooting..
therealswanson
their rifles in the air (they were aiming at us, 200 yds away, it's 3:30 am and I'm fucking cold, I warm up some bovril and notice a thumb
therealswanson
rubbing down my boot, a little brown thumb, I freak the fuck out obviously, and some little dude pops up under my poncho and says 'boots ok'
therealswanson
then fucks off into the dark, had no idea at the time it was a Ghurka patrol who got a little lost and though I was a Argentinian soldier
therealswanson
Turns out, in ww1 they learned to tell an allied soldier in the dark was to just check how he laced his boots, anyway that's why you will
therealswanson
get the correct way of lacing up your boots at the ATC drilled into you.