{"id":27640,"date":"2025-08-23T07:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/oss-lockpick-pocketknife-for-secret-intelligence-operatives-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T12:55:08","slug":"oss-lockpick-pocketknife-for-secret-intelligence-operatives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/oss-lockpick-pocketknife-for-secret-intelligence-operatives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OSS Lockpick Pocketknife for Secret Intelligence Operatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVr3zZo8XFo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In early 1944, the Office of Strategic Services purchase 1,000 specialized pocketknives made by Schrade. Instead of regular blades and tools, these were lock picking knives, with one small blade, three different picks, and two rakes. Able to easily pass as a normal pocketknife on casual inspection, nearly all of them were issued out to OSS Secret Intelligence agents across the European, Mediterranean, and Far Eastern theaters of operation. Today only a few are known to survive\u2026<\/p>\n<p>OSS Equipment Catalog from Headstamp Publishing:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/purchase\/p\/oss\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/purchase\/p\/oss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CIA Equipment Catalog from Headstamp Publishing: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/purchase\/p\/cia\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\/purchase\/p\/cia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 1944, the Office of Strategic Services purchase 1,000 specialized pocketknives made by Schrade. Instead of regular blades and tools, these were lock picking knives, with one small blade, three different picks, and two rakes. Able to easily pass as a normal pocketknife on casual inspection, nearly all of them were issued out to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/oss-lockpick-pocketknife-for-secret-intelligence-operatives-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OSS Lockpick Pocketknife for Secret Intelligence Operatives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}