Your Favorite SPOOK, CIA, Clandestine Covert Handguns, REAL and FICTITIOUS

There is always the story/ tale / legend of MG William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan when he was in charge of COI (before OSS).


Walking into a meeting with FDR and firing a few rounds into a sand bag with a High Standard HDM


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Supposedly FDR never heard it, and was supposedly writing a letter to Churchill at the time.
 
The Mark 23 Mod 0 Socom. The gun, silencer, and ammunition were all made for a single purpose- to have the most effective weapon for operations that a long arm isn't desired.

Oh, I am surprised no one has mentioned the MP5K and it's special briefcase yet... That one is cool too! :)
 
For another one by TsKIB SOO, there's a line of "cigarette-case" guns designed by Stechkin, that fire silenced 30-calibre captured-piston ammunition.

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Help me out here. I seem to remember that there is a gun out there, I believe that it is used by Spainish dignitaries. About the size of a large package of Starburst, uses a cartridge not available on the open market, and is squeezed to fire. The odd caliber was chosen in the event the gun fell into the wrong hands there would be no ammunition available.
 
Jeff, I think you're thinking of the Llama Pressin, a two-shot squeeze-pistol thingy that was meant to resemble a pair of eyeglasses carried in a case; it was in 32 Auto, so I don't know how hard it would be to find ammo, but it is an interesting idea. They made these for government and military officials that they thought were at risk of being kidnapped during the Basque uprising. Here's a page (in Spanish) showing a few pictures:

http://www.armas.es/actualidad/arti...ressin-historia-de-una-pequena-gran-arma.html

Edit to add: this was apparently actually chambered in a SHORTENED 32 Auto (7.65x15), so Jeff was right about the ammo choice; here's another picture showing the muzzles.

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George Smiley is my favorite spook.

Gun? I think maybe he used a Browning 1910 but not sure. Not even sure if George knew.

Deaf
 
> Matt Helm liked the Woodsman .22, "quiet and accurate" and was irked
> to have to replace it with a .38 just because that was what cops (in the
> 1960s) carried.

Helm had to leave his .22 (which was his personal property) behind while staging a crime scene for the police. The agency issued him a 5-shot .38 revolver, their armorers having decided that a .38 was the minimum cartridge with enough power to do the job. He hated the .38s, which he felt were too big and too noisy.

He was showing a woman how to shoot the .38 once, and she wondered about it only holding five shots. "The general feeling is, if you can't do the job in five shots, you probably can't do it in six," was his reply, though I've probably munged the exact wording after all these years.
 
> rocket pistol

Shell Scott used a Gyrojet in one of Richard S. Prather's detective stories, though he normally carried a .38.


> High Standard Model 10

...made famous in "Shaft's Big Score."
 
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