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Inventing Bond: Gadgets

Patented: History of Inventions

CHAPTER

Cervais and the Bola Hat

The best spy gadget in your opinion is the biggest flop, what you have about The Glomar? So this is basically a red submarine hunt for October. This is another fantastical story I mean, one of the things that I love about our subject matter is that sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. And let's go on to disguises, not fake noses and glasses, unfortunately. But actually, well,  this is classic Bond, the Bola hat. A Bola hat was actually used by MI6 that had a metal frame inside and would hold a pistol.

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