# CIA reveals plans to make demonic bin Laden doll

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 20, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-reveals-plans-to-make-demonic-bin-laden-doll/691209 "2014-06-20T14:32:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2014, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-reveals-plans-to-make-demonic-bin-laden-doll/691209/1 "2014-06-20T14:32:43Z")

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Gotta admit, [this one’s pretty damn clever](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/chi-bin-laden-toy-20140620,0,1348785.story):

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> \*Beginning in about 2005, the CIA began secretly developing a custom-made Osama bin Laden action figure, according to people familiar with the project. The faces of the figures were painted with a heat-dissolving material, **designed to peel off and reveal a red-faced bin Laden who looked like a demon,** with piercing green eyes and black facial markings.
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> The goal of the short-lived project was simple: spook children and their parents, causing them to turn away from the actual bin Laden.
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> The code-name for the bin Laden figures was “Devil Eyes,” and to create them the CIA turned to one of the best minds in the toy business, said those familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the project publicly.\*

I so want one of these – wonder how much a prototype would fetch on eBay?

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-reveals-plans-to-make-demonic-bin-laden-doll/691209/2 "2014-06-21T08:47:21Z")

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Hey, it worked with tortillas and [bathroom tiles.](http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/09/16/lamest-pareidolia-ever-satan-appears-on/)

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cia-reveals-plans-to-make-demonic-bin-laden-doll/691209/3 "2014-06-21T14:59:21Z")

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It walks–it talks–it wets–it terrorizes!