OSS Lockpick Pocketknife for Secret Intelligence Operatives (Ad-free)
Added 2025-08-23 12:00:04 +0000 UTCIn early 1944, the Office of Strategic Services purchase 1,000 specialized pocketknives made by Schrade. Instead of regular blades and tools, these were lock picking knives, with one small blade, three different picks, and two rakes. Able to easily pass as a normal pocketknife on casual inspection, nearly all of them were issued out to OSS Secret Intelligence agents across the European, Mediterranean, and Far Eastern theaters of operation. Today only a few are known to survive…
OSS Equipment Catalog from Headstamp Publishing:
https://www.headstamppublishing.com/purchase/p/oss
CIA Equipment Catalog from Headstamp Publishing:
https://www.headstamppublishing.com/purchase/p/cia
Comments
we were hoping for an Annihilator as a distraction....
WayneWiiki
2025-08-25 23:58:19 +0000 UTCWould you consider (if you were able to access some items) reviewing some of the escape items that were sent to POW camps in WWII?
Rick Notkin
2025-08-23 18:32:41 +0000 UTC
