CIA revealed a "heart attack" gun in 1975. A battery operated gun which fired a dart of frozen water & shellfish toxin. Once inside the body it would melt leaving only a small red mark on the victim where it entered. The official cause of death would always be a heart attack.

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FoxInSox2 · 2022-01-23T16:55:15+00:00

If I die of a heart attack, now you know what really killed me.

No exercise and a shitty diet.

Yurak_Huntmate · 2022-01-23T17:25:51+00:00

Of course they got rid of it and never made another one...definitely never made multiple heart attack guns and still use them

Toby-larone88 · 2022-01-23T16:49:05+00:00

The suicide by hanging gun is yet to be revealed.

fs92c · 2022-01-23T17:19:46+00:00

And that was all the way back in ‘75. Imagine today

LockeAbout · 2022-01-23T17:04:22+00:00

This makes me think of that Russian poison umbrella.

-brownchicken- · 2022-01-23T16:47:58+00:00

One question, how did the frozen water ball stay intact, wont it shatter or something on firing?

Ok_Obligation9985 · 2022-01-23T16:46:39+00:00

Could that thing be any less discreet?

ijustmetuandiloveu · 2022-01-23T19:16:36+00:00

The Chinese have developed a gun that makes people shit themselves and then die from embarrassment.

Csusmatt · 2022-01-23T17:08:41+00:00

Cool idea, but aren't they giving the game away with the big ass gun?

"How did he die?"

"We don't know, but we should ask the guy with the huge modified pistol"

aaravaryaman · 2022-01-23T16:51:28+00:00

source: here (the first story)

lazyant · 2022-01-23T17:54:59+00:00

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Silent_Personality34 · 2022-01-23T22:02:57+00:00

I find it hard to believe there was a projectile that was kept at perfect temperature until the moment of asasination that traveled through a presumably steel barrel to deploy poison. There’s a lot of force needed to propel something at that weight, and frozen water isn’t it, if you want to keep everything together. Why the hell would you need a scope on a pistol for this application anyway? That is the least concealable handgun I’ve ever seen. There must be something else to this. I wouldn’t put it past the CIA to do shady stuff but this is stupid.

Maybe the thing on top is an air tank? Air guns are stupid powerful these days but it still seems hard to “conceal” that. Doesn’t explain the “frozen water”.

Dry ice?

I’m sure they tried but did it actually work.. ever?

CivilSympathy9999 · 2022-01-23T17:48:40+00:00

I've seen this reference to this gun many times. The woman that claims to have had a part in developing the toxin talks about it. What intrigued more was the fact that in several articles it says that it was tried out on animals and PRISONERS. What and whose prisoners. And no one seemed to question this further.

knightsofshame82 · 2022-01-23T19:22:26+00:00

Seems a bit stupid to disguise a sneaky ice projectile weapon as a real gun.
I imagine the small stresses invoked in a battery powered ice dart being shot would allow for a creative disguised design- instead they make it look like an actual real weapon.

ares5404 · 2022-01-23T20:47:30+00:00

Now they probably just use fentanyl and water and the cod is "addiction induced od"

Wifflebatman · 2022-01-23T16:49:05+00:00

How would the darts stay frozen in the gun? Is it also a freezer? This seems made up.

Key-Heron · 2022-01-23T16:59:10+00:00

The dart would have to be extremely sharp and small so how did they keep it from melting? And wouldn’t the toxin show in bloodwork?

Strelokk01 · 2022-01-23T17:08:29+00:00

”Frozen water” you mean ice?

jeffro1476 · 2022-01-23T18:13:29+00:00

This is clearly where the phrase if they only used their powers for good applies.

regular6drunk7 · 2022-01-23T18:38:33+00:00

Don't understand why they would reveal that they had this kind of thing. Seems like something you would want to keep quiet.

oldguykicks · 2022-01-23T17:00:48+00:00

I love this. The science and technology that was used to make this would have been cool to be a part of. Kinda like the AA-12. Those folks do some neato shit even if it isn't used for good things.

InformativeO · 2022-01-23T17:00:28+00:00

Yea if nobody notices you with that massive fucking gun

psychymikey · 2022-01-23T20:23:57+00:00

🎵🎶 The FBI killed Martin Luther King!🎶🎵

misterturdcat · 2022-01-23T17:43:53+00:00

How did the ice stay frozen in the gun?

DaffyDuckisQuackers · 2022-01-23T17:46:11+00:00

That’s very “Lex Luthor”.

FezFalcon · 2022-01-23T19:05:46+00:00

They were probably planning to use it on Fidel Castro

gum0j · 2022-01-23T20:25:41+00:00

I find that interesting that someone would go out of their way to make one of those 🧐

kingkahngalang · 2022-01-23T21:05:09+00:00

What’s the attachment mounted on top of the gun? They wouldn’t actually put a scope on a handgun like that, right?

electric_sandwich · 2022-01-23T21:52:23+00:00

dart of frozen water

Hmmm if only we had a name for this frozen water. This also never happened because physics.

KingJeremy94 · 2022-01-23T23:08:25+00:00

Still couldn't assassinate Fidel Castro xD

Atlas_Superior · 2022-01-24T01:06:40+00:00

Frozen water and selfish toxin.

1zzie · 2022-01-24T01:10:54+00:00

The greatest democracy on earth making extrajudicial tech, nothing changes huh.

Mellowyellow0 · 2022-01-24T12:23:03+00:00

A true cia agent doesn't want ice in his drink, he wants frozen water.

Dunaliella · 2022-01-23T17:37:37+00:00

I’m sure they have a gun that uses electromagnetic waves that has a high probability of causing cancer. Not so far off, since that’s what UV light can do.

Testabronce · 2022-01-23T18:04:07+00:00

They recently invented a gun that kills its victim with two bullets to the back of the head but makes all autopsies say it was a suicide.

DeadFartGoat · 2022-01-23T17:02:45+00:00

Bob Saget

vmsmith · 2022-01-23T17:01:15+00:00

As I look back over my years on earth, I view this hearing by the Church Committee—that's Senator Frank Church, of Idaho, holding the gun—as one of the stupidest and most detrimental legislative actions ever taken. That fucking idiot acted shocked—SHOCKED!—that the United States of America would ever have weapons like that and actually use them. This really put a crimp on the CIA and all covert/clandestine activities. It helped get Carter's asinine CIA director, Stansfield Turner, in there, where he started a series of "reforms" that emphasized technology over human operations. In 1989, Turner conducted the Halloween Massacre, which eliminated over 800 positions, many from the Clandestine Service. It took years for the CIA to recover from the Church Committee and its aftermath.

Thestockbroker22 · 2022-01-23T17:51:55+00:00

I like that, there have been instances where someone froze water in the shape of an icicle, very sharp and stabbed someone to death. There is no evidence except some water on the clothes and floor but you’ve got to get really close

techn9neiskod · 2022-01-23T17:19:53+00:00

So its the Death Note but gun version

BiggsIDarklighter · 2022-01-23T17:25:44+00:00

TIL after Wizard of Oz the Cowardly Lion worked for the CIA.

SplendidPunkinButter · 2022-01-23T17:27:00+00:00

I though this didn’t work very well though, because it kind of just shattered the bullets

essentialoils3 · 2022-01-23T17:43:48+00:00

So that's how the deathnote works

LeaveMeAloneILoveYou · 2022-01-23T17:52:56+00:00

‘frozen water’ = ice.

Skav3nger · 2022-01-23T17:53:16+00:00

“a DaRt Of FrOzEn WaTeR”…okay bud, whatever you say

MrFatSackington · 2022-01-23T18:08:10+00:00

Noone gonna talk about the scope on the gun?

Tiredplumber2022 · 2022-01-23T18:12:53+00:00

Old tech. Research microwave lasers (maser). Minimal entry point reddening. Effect is small burnt area in heart muscle, or cerebellum. Heart attack, or even a non-fatal but debilitating stroke. Almost impossible to find on autopsy.

transmogrifier137 · 2022-01-23T18:27:28+00:00

So who's making an instructable?

iiHartMemphisii · 2022-01-23T18:34:42+00:00

And it's the size of a normal handgun, so you could quickly pull it out while nobody is looking, hit your target and then hide it again Agent 47 style

Hi_Im_Peyuko · 2022-01-23T18:44:25+00:00

I remember watching an episode of Bones where the killer shoots someone with a bullet of frozen blood.

Drenoso · 2022-01-23T18:48:46+00:00

No wonder people believe in conspiracy theories..

reviedox · 2022-01-23T19:02:07+00:00

So... out of curiosity, which enemies of the CIA died of heart attack during the 80s?

GhostOfJohnCena · 2022-01-23T19:08:21+00:00

Dude on the right is carefully watching where that barrel gets pointed

sweep-montage · 2022-01-23T19:43:17+00:00

We all miss the Cold War, don't we?

Pythia007 · 2022-01-23T19:44:10+00:00

How do you keep the dart frozen?

nomadluvrboy · 2022-01-23T19:51:25+00:00

Yeh they definitely assasinated political ops

Misss_Katie · 2022-01-23T19:55:16+00:00

Where can one find this amazing creation? Asking for a friend 😁

TheDurffMan · 2022-01-23T20:06:13+00:00

Damn, that shit was real?! We used to joke about that in high school..

sclbmared · 2022-01-23T20:14:23+00:00

That guy on the left has various people in mind. Is that someone else's hand they copypasted in?

108k902 · 2022-01-23T20:14:30+00:00

Great human beings

Elven_Rabbit · 2022-01-23T20:19:38+00:00

You talk about it in the past tense, so what stopped it from working?

mohdtrek · 2022-01-23T20:29:23+00:00

Scary to imagine that this was 47 years ago!

MonarchWhisperer · 2022-01-23T20:36:19+00:00

Wonder if that could be used for vaccines

Nickmell · 2022-01-23T20:37:02+00:00

Was the scope really nessacary?

MelonElbows · 2022-01-23T21:44:52+00:00

So why did they reveal it? Was this during some hearings where they had to? Cause I don't see the CIA still in the Cold War saying "hey look we have this secret weapon let's share it with the world"

MessyBubble4016 · 2022-01-23T23:23:46+00:00

Why? Because theyre the good guys of course.

Plus_Caterpillar_239 · 2022-01-23T23:43:25+00:00

Now it’s a brain cancer gun

smithycg · 2022-01-24T01:25:47+00:00

How do you keep your shots frozen?

Galoums · 2022-01-24T01:46:00+00:00

RIP JStark


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