Does Anyone know what Jason Hanson's (former CIA) "Mystery knife" is ?

Blues said:
Sigh...

I don't know how many of you have actually dealt with them...but I have.

They're batting about .500 with me...if I'm feeling generous.

Also, most of 'em wouldn't know one end of a knife from another.

Uh-oh. Who's that knocking at my door...be right...
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Can confirm, they have/had a cool job, maybe, but they are still people.
 
only buy from Ex-Seals, Ex-Veterans(that are to young to be veterans of the war they claim to be veterans of), Ex-secret agents, Ex-Ninjas (Mall ones are the best) Ex-stuntmen, Ex-bodyguards, Ex-bouncers, Ex-knife sellers, Ex-chefs and so on....
 
calm said:
only buy from Ex-Seals, Ex-Veterans(that are to young to be veterans of the war they claim to be veterans of), Ex-secret agents, Ex-Ninjas (Mall ones are the best) Ex-stuntmen, Ex-bodyguards, Ex-bouncers, Ex-knife sellers, Ex-chefs and so on....
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And...remember to take a healthy dose of Ex-Lax...to relieve the buildup therefrom.
 
rlewpolar said:
I’m on his mailing list because I made the mistake of buying one of his books years ago. I’m always struck at how ridiculous his emails are. It’s like he is writing at a 3rd grade level for the middle-aged Walter Mitty crowd. At first I thought the was kidding, like doing a parody of a “super secret agent” (yes, he’s actually used that term). Super duper secret mystery knife? Lol, I think I’ll pass 🤦‍♂️
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All I can think of is Ralph Wiggum, conspicuously cosplaying as Jason Bourne but with a searing drive to shill cheap garbage corrupting the aesthetic because he's festooned his beltline and pockets with crappy gadgetry, standing around trying to mean mug his parents, who off-handedly ask what he's up to, and he blurts out 'I'm low profile!'
 
CIA Agent knives are interesting. Aside from the a few personal Randalls and Harry Archer's Loveless Chute knife*, most of the stuff that can be verified is just sturdy and basic. I've seen declassified paper work from the late 60's where they were buying small batches of of the shelf hunting knives from Hoffritz to test out.

Fast forwarding a bit, here's a CIA officer's knife he donated to the museum, it's a standard Cold Steel Kobun -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1219608318622281728
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*Archer before he got the Loveless, advocated a 3 knife kit of a short 12" machete, a mid sized fixed blade, and a Swiss Army knife. He actually gave more importance to the machete and the Swiss than the fixed blade.
 
tltt said:
CIA Agent knives are interesting. Aside from the a few personal Randalls and Harry Archer's Loveless Chute knife*, most of the stuff that can be verified is just sturdy and basic. I've seen declassified paper work from the late 60's where they were buying small batches of of the shelf hunting knives from Hoffritz to test out.

Fast forwarding a bit, here's a CIA officer's knife he donated to the museum, it's a standard Cold Steel Kobun -

https://twitter.com/x/status/1219608318622281728
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*Archer before he got the Loveless, advocated a 3 knife kit of a short 12" machete, a mid sized fixed blade, and a Swiss Army knife. He actually gave more importance to the machete and the Swiss than the fixed blade.
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Good info. That Cold Steel Koburn seems to me to be the perfect self-defense knife if someone wanted to be very low profile. Very light, very slim, and that tanto tip would do some real damage if used as a stabber. I’d buy a knife endorsed by Steve Schroen who was a legend in the community. He’s mentioned several times in the definitive book about the CIA, “Legacy of Ashes”. Interestingly enough, Jason Hanson is not mentioned once 😂
 
EngrSorenson said:
If someone's using their credentials as CIA to sell books and stupid knives, what are the chances they're really CIA?
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Oh, he may be a real CIA employee, but that covers a lotto ground. We had a neighbor back in D.C. that was with the CIA. Everyday, commuted over to Langley to his job. When he retired he was honest about what he did. He was an agricultural annalist. He spent his time looking at crop yield reports and livestock counts, to predict how much food supply a country had on hand to feed troops and populace. He was strictly an office type, and never traveled and was actually a boring guy. Liked to garden and grow roses. I can only wonder if Hanson is the same ilk, a retired office guy who's blowing up his connections for the sake of sales.
 
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jackknife said:
Oh, he may be a real CIA employee, but that covers a lotto ground. We had a neighbor back in D.C. that was with the CIA. E everyday, commuted over to Langley to his job. When he retired he was honest about what he did. He was an agricultural annalist. He spent his time looking at crop yield reports and livestock counts, to predict how much food supply a country had on hand to feed troops and populace. He was strictly an office type, and never traveled and was aciculate a boring guy. Liked to garden and grow roses. I can only wonder if Hanson is the same ilk, a retired office guy who's blowing up his connections for the sake of sales.
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Delgadonine said:
0. Zero.

No time is wasted on such things.

Consumers of a different kind are sought.
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I found out my aunt and uncle were CIA after they died, but they sure as hell never mentioned anything to me about it.
It made the pictures of Uncle Jack with US presidents make more sense.
 
jackknife said:
I can only wonder if Hanson is the same ilk, a retired office guy who's blowing up his connections for the sake of sales.
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When someone stands to benefit financially, I always become skeptical.
Especially in the knife industry... the number of "operators" probably exceeds the number of recruits in the standing army.
 
Good friend of mine was Green Beret, now CIA. He spends his day behind a desk pushing pencils, his knife when he was deployed in any capacity was trash bc he never used a knife.
CIA action men are rarer than tatas on a bull, its far from MACV SOG days from what I know...so listening to some ex-spook dude espouse on which blade cuts men in half is about as useful as listening to Nutnfancy gun reviews.
 
Even if he was CIA, it is not readily apparent why that qualifies him to design, sell, or even opine on knives at all. Same thing for being Special Forces. So what if you were a Navy SEAL or a Green Beret or a Pararescue Jumper or a Recon Marine? You mainly used knives for the same thing as the supply fobbit did and possibly less frequently than him, as well.
 
sadmin said:
Good friend of mine was Green Beret, now CIA. He spends his day behind a desk pushing pencils, his knife when he was deployed in any capacity was trash bc he never used a knife.
CIA action men are rarer than tatas on a bull, its far from MACV SOG days from what I know...so listening to some ex-spook dude espouse on which blade cuts men in half is about as useful as listening to Nutnfancy gun reviews.
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Oh man, you fell for that too?

Don't you recall some years ago, the rash of KGB agents found dead from being stabbed by a pencil that had the graphite laced with some deadly nerve agent? The graphite was the type used by Ticonderoga. ;) :D
 
The CIA is huge. They have their own army and also people to scrub toilets.
 
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