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Dubiously attributed to carnival
showman
P.T.
Barnum, the saying that "There's a sucker born every minute" seems to have been
the case since the beginning of time. Recall that Adam ate of the apple pitched
by Eve, shortly after she had been beguiled by the serpent. Things went downhill
from there. Spies engaged in espionage have also been in plentiful supply throughout
the history of mankind. Amongst other things, they procure ideas conjured up by
other men's minds by
hook or by crook, then use that knowledge themselves or sell it to interested
parties - who often solicited the services of the spy in the first place. Most acts
of deceit and trickery are carried out in secret, out of public view; however, sometimes
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today). Magazines such as Popular Mechanics (to wit this May 1943 issue),
Science
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making such offers. Stories abound of poor saps yielding up details of their inventions
to total strangers, only to later learn that, son-of-a-gun, somebody else must have
thought of the same thing and got the item patented before theirs could be submitted
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