I've heard that the USSR spies used, on occasion, a very powerful directed x-ray source to assassinate people discretely. It was used by setting up the device outside the building where the target resided, and aiming the emitter through the wall at the victim's skull. While the victim sat in achair up against the wall, or was sleeping, the assassins would leave (far from the device) and remotely trigger an extremely powerful x-ray beam that would fire directly into the target's brain and kill him in a matter of tens of seconds. upon confirmation of success, the device was removed, and for at least a decade, it was not know what caused these people to die? Is it a myth?

Of course it's a myth, STUPID! Why don't you try to verify it by looking up odd deaths with people's heads exploding in newspapers, see if you can find anything. Where do you hear all this crap? This and the ice bomb.

the ice bomb thing is a video i saw on a legitimate science TV show. it's the german version of Braniac. And i heard about the X-ray gun from a co-worker who is 58 years old. his Father was a russian military commander during the USSR's height. I work at Lockheed Martin, and this man and myself have top secret DoD clearances. I very much beleive that not only is this a feasible weapon, i also beleive it was so effective that it remains illusive even to this day. How absurd is Assassination by radioactive Polonium?!?! but it happened...

Oh, and their heads don't explode. The whole reason for using this x-ray weapon is that there is very little or no evidence as to explain the cause of death. and even if they didn't kill you with it, you would definately get cancer later on.

My only trouble with this myth is that A) an electronic x-ray machine capable of generating a lethal beam would need a lot of electricity and the equiptment would be quite large. How would they move it in and out of the target location without detection? And where would they get all that power without being noticed? b) electronic xray machines are loud. the more powerful, the louder. i can't imagine that something as big and as loud as that would be descrete to say the least!
c) They probably did not use a x-ray tube at all. I'm betting on a radioactive x-ray source element, with nothing more than a lead box with a lead door on one side which could be remotely opened and closed.

Methinks you are confusing x-rays with gamma rays. Yes, gamma rays kill quickly (but not x-rays). However, they can only be reproduced (they are a space phenomena) in the lab, under lab conditions.

X-ray used by spies to assassinate people, never heard of that kind of thing. the Idea sounds pretty rational because of X-ray because of the gamma rays upon the source of the radiation as a weapon. That would be nice if you could provide further evidence upon that, of the usage of that weaponry as assassination tool.

What happens if your mark moves in the time you need to get away and remotely trigger said device?

Sounds like the story got badly garbled in the retelling. Sounds like somebody heard part of a story about listening devices and filled in the details wrong.

Specifically, sounds like an electronic monitoring technique called the Passive Resonant Cavity Bug, which is activated and operated by directing a microwave at the bug (usually placed in a wall or item in the monitored room). So . . . that accounted for the spies lurking outside bombarding the building with Buck Rogers ray guns.

hey i'm new so could u help me with something? I have no idea how to set up one of these forums since i have a possible myth for the show. could u tell me how. Oh and about ur possible myth... i think it would be a great myth to have on the show. i wonder what they will do for it.


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