An assassin may also need to hide packets containing liquid poison. Magicians’ tactics offer guidance on how to distract your target as you pour this poison into a drink.
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Another section covers how to secrete the object upon your person. You put it in your pocket, of course, but specific advice guides you on how to reach the pocket without being seen.
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If we had to insert a joke right here, maybe it would be something about how only men can do this trick, since women have no pockets. The CIA one-upped us, however, going into detail about this exact thing: “Depending upon the type of attire, women have no pockets at all or very few. And women’s pockets always are the wrong size and construction and in the wrong locations to hide an object easily and quickly.” The manual therefore includes special instructions for female spies, on adding secret pockets to dresses and covering the opening with a belt.
It also addresses two hiding places from fiction: down a stocking or down the front of your dress. “In most instances neither can be used inconspicuously. Further, either because of costume or anatomy, in neither place can an object of any size or weight be hidden.” And the manual talks of how women can easily play dumb in front of a man. “Men are never astonished when a woman does not know something.” However, beware: You may not fool everyone this way. “Such a pose is apt to be suspected by another woman. This point is true also of a show of coyness, shyness or maidenly modesty.”