This suppository kit contains an amazing array of tools

There are suppository escape kits and suppository escape kits. Here at the WoWasis Spycraft store, we’ve sold out of our complete supply of this item, and are looking for new suppliers (see below). Our little escape gizmo is essentially a “get out of jail free” card that was perfected by the French resistance during World War II. You’ve got to be a tough hombre to carry one of these, and today, we’d imagine that people who are concerned about being kidnapped in nations where that kind of thing is common are among its strongest advocates. The MK 1 suppository kit is detailed in Minnery’s The CIA Catalog Of Clandestine Weapons, Tools, And Gadgets (1990, ISBN 0-942637-69-0), and although it doesn’t include a small tube of lubricant, as some of the others do, it nevertheless contains an impressive toolkit, making it de rigueur for home handymen and fixit specialists the world over. Here’s what author John Minnery has to say about it:

E&E Suppository MK I
An attempt was made during World War II to provide a complete escape tool kit housed in a rubber capsule that could be carried internally if necessary. Pushed inside the anus, it could be held in place by the anal sphincter and would obviously pass all but the most intimate of searches. [This hiding place is nothing new; it has been used by prisoners and smugglers for centuries for stowing contraband. Prisoners use “Le plan,” as it is called in Europe, to secrete cash or illicit drugs inside custom-made aluminum or brass tubes with threaded caps. Daggers, and even guns, can be made to fit this profile as well.)

This kit contains a set of saw, file, and knife blades, as well as a drill and reamers. There is also a wire cutter with screwdriver and pry bar. With such an array of hardware, a prisoner could conceivably free himself or herself from shackles, make a key, disassemble a lock or door from its hinges, cut a barbed-wire fence, saw through a panel or bamboo floor, attack a guard, and even steal a vehicle. There are myriad options.

This compact kit is waterproof, of course, and while it would generally be carried in a pocket as a wallet, on operations in which one is in danger of being captured, it is stored where intended. Once one becomes acquainted with the item, it is not uncomfortable to carry; in some cases, it is a great comfort to know that it is always close at hand.

Modern search techniques and the popular x-ray scanners and metal detectors will uncover this device, but these do not come into play in a preliminary search, which is the time that the device may still be used. Psychologically, the prisoner may be down for being caught, but the most opportune time for escape is in the early stages of capture during transfers, while waiting in holding cells, during breaks between interrogations,
and so on. The usefulness of this device depends upon the sophistication of the country of operation.

Your WoWasis field test team is frankly too skittish to give it a rigorous field test, especially after a heavy day of eating Thai meals with super-potent chilis (we’d hate to have to “go fishing” if we were inadvertently careless). There is at least one comprehensive posting on the internet detailing its use and history. We are actively looking for a new supplier, our previous one having gone out of business. If you supply a suppository kit similar to this, please respond to this post. We’ll request a sample, and if it passes muster, will add it to our eStore.