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• Ian Fleming worked for the Secret Service during World War II. After the war, he began writing books about a spy named James Bond. His very first book, called “Casino Royale,” was based a story he heard about while he THEon“X” FACTOR (continued): worked for the Secret Service, in which Rus• Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have sian spies hired two assassins tothis kill term the Gerabnormal dryness of the skin, applies man They were given two camera to ambassador. you! cases: one was blue and the other was red. The • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on Russians said the red one a bombthreethe Mediterranean Sea contained sailed a small andmasted vessel with square and triangular sails the blue one contained a smokescreen. The that enabled them to sail faster thanin their assassins were told to detonate the bomb the prospective victims. Depending on the size of red case and then deploy the smokescreen in the the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 blue case to make their escape. guns might be mounted on the vessel. • The assassins did not trust the Russians and • The word xenia the has a variety of meanings. decided to reverse instructions, assumTo the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of ing that the blue camera case actually held the hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown bomb, and the case held To the the smokescreen. to those far red from home. botanist, it’s • As it turned out, both cases contained bomb. the effect of pollen on a seed. And toathose in The Russians wanted theseat firstof bomb to kill the Ohio, it’s the county Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 destroyed km) from ambassador, while the second bomb Dayton. the evidence. As it turned out, the assassins • Xystus an architectural term, referring were killed is while the ambassador they were to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, sent to murder escaped with only minor inju- of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes ries. would exercise during inclement weather. • Regardless of whether or not the story was To the Romans, the xystus was the garden true, it madeina front great of plot launchedwhere Ian they walkway theand porticoes, Fleming’s career, as well as James Bond’s. planted flower beds. • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” THE MYSTERIOUS words, xyster and xiphisterna. RADIO The xyster is a • Two spies in France needed to disguise surgical instrument used for scraping their bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the radio transmitter so it could never be cartilage located at bythe lower end of the body’s sternum, that long the Germans. They got a large wine cask andflat bone located at the center of the chest. divided it in half, with wine in the bottom, • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and the transmitting equipment— and the radio and several of our words for a prefix. man— in the top. While one use manit pushed the Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along cask on a cart, dispensing wine to customers, with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants thewith radioyellow man would informastemsbe aretransmitting xanthopous. To those tion. When German tracking trucks appeared, suffering from the abnormal vision condition theknown radio man would be signaled to stopthey trans-see as xanthopsia, everything seems The to have a yellow hue. mitting. Germans were mystified. (cont’d)
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• An Albanian man named Ilya Basna worked as a spy for the Germans. He got a job as a valet to the British ambassador to Turkey, and photographed documents that came through the office. He became the highest paid German spy. The British figured out they had a spy in their midst, but Basna fled with his money to Argentina. He went to a bank to deposit his fortune. Only then did he discover that the Germans had paid him in counterfeit currency. • During World War II the British developed a powerful itching powder thinking that if it could be smuggled to prisoners who would sprinkle it on their captors, they could get a few moments of distraction to escape.
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• Mikhail Gorin was a spy in 1938 when he sent a suit to be dry cleaned. He forgot to check the pockets first. The dry cleaner checked them as a matter of routine, and found notes concerning Japanese spies. • Heinrich Albert was a German spy in New York City during World War I. He dozed off on the subway one day, and awoke with a start when the doors opened at the next stop. He left the subway so abruptly that he forgot his briefcase. A Secret Service agent who had been following him snatched the briefcase, finding it held papers concerning German plans to attack American munitions factories. The documents were subsequently published in the New York “World.” • When agents stormed the Japanese embassy in Portugal, they seized a secret Japanese code book, thinking it would be helpful to the Allies. They didn’t know that the Allies had already broken the code. Now that Japan knew the code book had been stolen, they immediately changed the code. It took more than a year before the U.S. could break the new code.
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