The spy who bit me
Still intrigued by this morning’s strange story of a woman who was arrested in Iran and reportedly claimed she had spy equipment installed in her teeth, I called up Peter Earnest, a CIA veteran and executive director of the International Spy Museum here in D.C., to see if he had ever heard of such a ...
Still intrigued by this morning's strange story of a woman who was arrested in Iran and reportedly claimed she had spy equipment installed in her teeth, I called up Peter Earnest, a CIA veteran and executive director of the International Spy Museum here in D.C., to see if he had ever heard of such a thing. He was skeptical:
Still intrigued by this morning’s strange story of a woman who was arrested in Iran and reportedly claimed she had spy equipment installed in her teeth, I called up Peter Earnest, a CIA veteran and executive director of the International Spy Museum here in D.C., to see if he had ever heard of such a thing. He was skeptical:
The only time I’ve heard of hearing devices in teeth are jokes about people going into a psychiatrist’s office saying that they’re hearing voices in their fillings. Why would somebody put a hearing device in their teeth? You already have ears on your head don’t you? Somebody may know something I don’t but I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I’m not looking at this and saying, “Oh, wow, look what they’re up to now.” I’ve never heard of something like this and would be very surprised if it turned out to be real.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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