21-25 Secret Service Facts
21. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy met First Lady Rosalynn Carter in 1978. The picture of them together shows him wearing a pin that meant Secret Service gave him special clearance. – Source
22. In 1985, Richard Nixon decided to drop his Secret Service protection saying that its yearly cost of $3 million from taxpayers’ money is too much. – Source
23. A Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) employee had top secret documents stolen from his car while attending a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game. – Source
24. “The Beast” AKA “US President’s state car” has no keyholes on its passenger doors; the way to open the doors on the limousine is a secret known only to the Secret Service. – Source
25. In 2002, German citizens were tipped off about wiretapping, when a software error led to a phone number allocated to the German Secret Service being listed on the mobile telephone bill. – Source
26-30 Secret Service Facts
26. Hugo Boss was a member of the Nazi Party and sponsored Hitler’s secret service, the Schutzstaffel. – Source
27. Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person. – Source
28. Sir George Mansfield Smith-c*mming of the British Secret Intelligence Service discovered that semen made a good invisible ink. – Source
29. The department store company Target has its own criminal forensics laboratories that have been used by agencies like the US Secret Service, ATF, and the FBI. – Source
30. When the Soviets gave Jacqueline Kennedy a puppy, the Secret Service was worried that it may have microphones implanted in it. – Source
31-35 Secret Service Facts
31. In 2010, the US Department of Education purchased 27 Remington Model 870 shotguns, the same weapons used by federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the Secret Service. Additionally, a month prior to the Department of Ed’s purchase, the IRS also bought 60 of the shotguns. – Source
32. Writer (from Cracked.com) Daniel O’Brien was questioned by the FBI and Secret Services after writing an article titled “How to Kidnap the President’s Daughter.” – Source
33. Hacker Samy Kamkar created a Myspace virus, which made anyone that looked at his profile automatically become his Myspace friend. It spread at a rate of 1000 accounts becoming his friend every second, resulting in over 1 million friends. Samy was raided by the Secret Service and got probation. – Source
34. A man called Richard Weaver, known as the Handshake Man is famous for bypassing the Secret Service and shaking the hands of various Presidents. He does this to pass them notes about God, as he believes he is a prophet. – Source
35. A former US Secret Service head pressed charges against an elderly deaf couple, forcing them from their home. – Source
36-37 Secret Service Facts
36. In the 1990’s Denny’s was involved in a series of discrimination cases including an incident when six black Secret Service agents visited a Denny’s in Annapolis, MD where they were forced to wait while their white companions were seated immediately upon entering. – Source
37. The hijack of Air France Flight 8969, widely claimed by the media as done by terrorists, could have been done by the Secret Service of Algeria to draw support from France in the ongoing Algerian civil war. – Source
