Pakistan Spy Pigeon Captured in Punjab - Page 2

multiskilled · 29-05-2010, 21:29

Let's hope it doesn't get the same treatment as the Hartlepool monkey.

Peter_ · 30-05-2010, 06:26

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Originally Posted by multiskilled

Let's hope it doesn't get the same treatment as the Hartlepool monkey.

Hey that was a hairy french spy.

**Maggy** · 30-05-2010, 10:57

You lot may laugh but....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon

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The UK maintained the Air Ministry Pigeon Section in World War II and for a while thereafter. A Pigeon Policy Committee made decisions about the uses of pigeons. The Head of the section, Lea Rayner, reported in 1945 that:
"We can now train pigeons to 'home' to any object on the ground when air-released in the vicinity... Bacteria might be delivered accurately to a target by this means,""With the latest developments of explosives and bacterial science I suggest that this possibility should be closely investigated and watched.""A thousand pigeons, each with a two ounce explosive capsule, landed at intervals on a specific target might be a seriously inconvenient surprise."