The inventor "Q" who was asked to CIA and actually made "secret tool of spy" was actually made in Paris · Theodore

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A spy in a movie, such as a wristwatch type camera or a lipstick type pistol, uses a unique tool to prevent the enemy from being aware of its existence, but actually has a CIA or FBI as its customer and actually makes such a weapon There were inventors who had been. Post technology-related articles on inventors who were known as "Q"War Is BoringIt is summarized.

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Paris · Theodore, also known as "Q", was born in New York in 1943 between a father, a sculptor and a professor of university, and a mother of a street performer and ballet instructor. When I was a child I was active as a child of a TV program, and at the age of 19 I married a dancer and choreographer Lee Becker.

In 1966, Theodor opens a small shop called "Seventrees" in New York. The slogan of the shop is "Unseen in the Best Places" which is the best place to visit, and was handmade holster on the front. However, in fact, the store said that Theodor, who was in the scouts of CIA, provided a special gun.


In 1934, the Commonwealth Firearms Act (NFA) Introduced a registration system for manufacturers and owners such as shotguns and machine guns, but at this time, guns such as pen type guns were not regulated.

Theodor was manufacturing the weapon of this hand. Israel's short machine gunUZIAnd a briefcase with a lighter for putting fire on 22 caliber bullets and so on. FBI was also one of Theodor 's customers, but FBI seems to have ordered a clipboard that can shoot 12 bullets for use by police under investigation.

In 1970, Theodor established a new company called Armament Systems Procedures Corporation (ASP) and invents a very small 9 mm pistol. At that time in AmericaSmith & WessonofS & W M39The guns gathered in popularity, Theodor 's handgun was modified S & W M39.

Theodor 's 9 mm pistol is based on S & W M 39, the part which can be cut is cut, the whole length is shortened, the surface is processed with Teflon so as not to get caught in clothes and holster losing the edge. As a result of considering more than 200 designs, finally the handgun is about 1.5 cm shorter than the S & W M39 by about 17 cm in total length. Later Smith & Wesson made a pistol of the same size as the Theodore's handgun, but at that time, a small handgun was unusual.


I made TheodorASP pistolWhat is unique is that the sighting device was special. Normally, a handgun has a sighting device like a peephole to target the target, but in the case of an ASP pistol, a yellow line is contained in the main body, and a target and a sniper are placed in a row across the line It was only to be aimed at just by becoming. By doing this, you do not need to peek through every peephole and you can fire more quickly.


Mr. Ian McCarran, an expert on firearms, said, "ASP pistol was based on practical knowledge based systems." From the application of "small handgun", there is no need to shoot precisely at long distances, and the point was placed on how the ASP pistol could firing quickly and efficiently against the target.

Also, all ASP pistols are custom made, and it is interesting that people who want "ASP pistol" had to bring S & W M39 to ASP. Moreover, it seems that the price was equivalent to 2000 dollars (about 237,000 yen) as its current value. Although it was an ASP that failed to open up the market well in a special way, it was acquired by individual investors in the 1980s, and production began from the beginning.

ASP made the same thing as the image of contemporary "spy", such as special edition that hollowed out the book and put pistol, and letter opener of design like dagger. President of Security Company The Fairfax GroupMichael HershmanHe told Theodor "essentially, he was an inventor," and it is said that Theodor has been acquiring more than 10 patents of his lifetime.

Unfortunately, however, many of Theodor 's inventions are now state secrets, and we will not see the eyes of the day.Anne's diaryIt became a topic that the copyright expired, but it seems to only expect that Theodor 's inventions and documents will also be public property.