Similarly, Lord Baden Powell, the founder of scouting, worked as a spy during WWII [edit: been corrected that it was the late 1800s, not WWII, and now I'll be fact checking things before posting them to Reddit 😅]. Posing as a lepidopterist , Powell would scout occupied territory with a sketchpad and the tools of his "trade". All the while sketching enemy defences into the patterns of butterfly wings.
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Reply to TIL: The concept of steganography which is the hiding of messages in plain sight. For example, Phyllis Latour Doyle (British spy) parachuted into France to spy on Nazis before D-day. She used knitting to record messages. by Geek_Nan
Similarly, Lord Baden Powell, the founder of scouting, worked as a spy during WWII [edit: been corrected that it was the late 1800s, not WWII, and now I'll be fact checking things before posting them to Reddit 😅]. Posing as a lepidopterist , Powell would scout occupied territory with a sketchpad and the tools of his "trade". All the while sketching enemy defences into the patterns of butterfly wings.