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Q: In 2006, the CIA with the help of a toymaker in China developed three prototypes of an Osama bin Laden action figure doll. The CIA said it nixed the project before any figures were shipped to South Asia. (Adam Goldman/The Washington Post) 
  
 For more than a decade, the CIA has deployed drones, satellites, spies, informants and tracking devices to thwart al-Qaeda in Pakistan. 
  
 The spy agency also considered a plan to wage war with toys. 
  
 Beginning in about 2005, the CIA began secretly developing a ­custom-made Osama bin Laden ­action figure, according to people familiar with the project. The face of the figure was painted with a heat-dissolving material, designed to peel off and reveal a red-faced bin Laden who looked like a demon, with piercing green eyes and black facial markings. 
  
 The goal of the short-lived project was simple: spook children and their parents, causing them to turn away from the actual bin Laden. 
  
 The code-name for the bin Laden figures was “Devil Eyes,” and to create them the CIA turned to one of the best minds in the toy business, said those familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the project publicly. 
  
 The toymaker was Donald Levine, the former Hasbro executive who was instrumental in the creation of the wildly popular G.I. Joe toys that generated more than $5 billion in sales after hitting the shelves in 1964. 
  
 The CIA’s interest in Levine was twofold: He had an eye for toys and a vast network of contacts in China, where the bin Laden action figures were ultimately manufactured. Levine had done business there for nearly 60 years and had the means to have the action figures discreetly developed and manufactured. 
  
 Levine died last month at age 86, after a lengthy battle with cancer. In response to questions about his work on the bin Laden toys, his family said in a statement: “Don Levine was a dedicated Patriot, and proud Korean War veteran. When called on, he was honored to assist our country.” 
  
 There’s a dispute over how many of the figurines, if any, were ultimately delivered. A person with direct knowledge of the project in China said hundreds of the toys — one of which was seen by The Washington Post — were made as part of a preproduction run and sent on a freighter to the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2006. 
  
 The CIA, while not disputing that it had commissioned the bin Laden figures, said the project was discontinued shortly after the prototypes were developed. 
  
 “To our knowledge, there were only three individual action figures ever created, and these were merely to show what a final product might look like,” CIA spokesman Ryan Trapani said. “After being presented with these examples, the CIA declined to pursue this idea and did not produce or distribute any of these action figures. Furthermore, CIA has no knowledge of these action figures being produced or distributed by others.” 
  
 Regardless of how far the “Devil Eyes” project proceeded, it appears to have borne all the hallmarks of what are known in intelligence parlance as “influence operations.” As part of its covert action programs, the agency has for decades tried to win the hearts and minds of local populations or turn them against a particular ideology. 
  
 Beginning around 2006, the CIA began developing an Osama bin Laden toy to counter his influence. (Adam Goldman/The Washington Post) 
  
 During the Cold War, for instance, the CIA secretly published both Western and Russian literature for distribution behind the Iron Curtain, created Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, subsidized intellectual magazines, underwrote concert tours and art exhibitions, and bankrolled academic seminars. 
  
 The agency also used young provocateurs to disrupt communist youth festivals and dropped propaganda leaflets from balloons. 
  
 All of it — from the high brow to the high jinks — was designed to either undermine the Soviet Union and its satellites or bolster support for the United States in key countries around the world. 
  
 Those efforts continued after the end of the Cold War. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1994, for instance, the CIA distributed soccer balls to demonstrate the generosity of the United States. 
  
 “It made them feel good about Americans,” a former CIA official said. “We were there trying to prepare the way for the military.” 
  
 Little is known about the kind of influence operations the CIA has run since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as part of the broader fight against al-Qaeda and Islamist extremism. 
  
 In Afghanistan, the CIA had locals broadcast propaganda from a forward operating base known as Camp Chapman in Khost province, the same base where seven CIA officers were later killed in a 2009 suicide bombing. 
  
 “Some of these [operations] have been considered successful and some have not been successful,” said Arturo Munoz, a former CIA officer who teaches a course at Georgetown University on covert action, who stressed that he was referring only to decades-old declassified operations. 
  
 The bin Laden venture began in 2005 as a plan to give U.S. allies in the Afghanistan region material that could be handed out to children to build goodwill. The handouts included toys, school supplies such as pencils, and notebooks. Levine was initially asked to help with the toys for boys. 
  
 “It appealed to [Levine] because it had nothing to do with actually hurting someone,” said a person familiar with his decision to get involved. “It was the softer side of the CIA.” 
  
 The agency approved the production of the gift items, which were put in backpacks for distribution — blue for boys and pink for girls. 
  
 CIA officials later approached Levine about the possibility of producing the bin Laden figures and having them sent to Pakistan or Afghanistan. Levine was initially ambivalent about the project but would later throw himself into the work, according to the people familiar with the project. 
  
 Levine developed prototypes before settling on a standard 12-inch figure with the facial features bin Laden. The head was superimposed on a figurine that was already in production in the Chinese city of Dongguan. 
  
 A Chinese artist took publicly available photographs of bin Laden and created an image that was strikingly close in appearance to the al-Qaeda leader. The final prototype was dressed in traditional garb and packaged in a cheap box covered with plastic and presented to the CIA for approval. Levine was said to have been pleased with the final product. 
  
 Although the CIA said it decided not to move forward with the operation, at least one of the figures remains at the agency’s headquarters. ||||| Revealed: The CIA's secret plan for a heat-sensitive Bin Laden doll whose face melted into a demon to scare potential al Qaeda converts in Pakistan 
  
 The agency secretly began developing the 12-inch doll in 2005 which had a painted face made in a heat-dissolving material 
  
 The project's named was 'Devil Eyes' and aimed to frighten Pakistanis away from joining al Qaeda 
  
  
  
 The CIA's barrage of drones and operatives to take on al Qaeda in Pakistan also had a more novel tactic - a secret shipment of custom-made Osama bin Laden dolls with faces which melted into a demonic mask. 
  
  
  
 The agency secretly began developing the 12-inch doll in 2005 which had a painted face, made in a heat-dissolving material, designed to flake off and reveal a red-faced bin Laden with glowing green eyes and black facial stripes. 
  
  
  
 The plan had one aim - to frighten children and their parents into staying away from bin Laden and his terrorist network. 
  
  
  
 The CIA planned to make an Osama bin Laden doll (left) back in 2005 with a dissolving mask which turned him into the devil (right). The plan was to send shipments of the doll to Pakistan to turn locals away from al Qaeda 
  
  
  
 One of the three bin Laden prototypes of the doll that the CIA developed with a toymaker in China 
  
 The project's code name was 'Devil Eyes', a source told The Washington Post. 
  
  
  
 The CIA worked with renowned toymaker Donald Levine to make the bin Laden doll. Mr Levine was the mastermind behind the beloved G.I. Joe which made more than $5billion for company Hasbro. 
  
 Mr Levine, who served in the Army in Korea, said he got the idea for the moveable G.I. Joe figure as a way to honor veterans. 
  
 According to The Post, the CIA turned to Mr Levine because he had a sprawling network of contacts in Chinese manufacturing where the dolls were to be made. He had the ability to have the dolls made in a discreet way, The Post reported. Mr Levine died last month aged 86 after a battle with cancer. 
  
 Three prototypes of the doll were made by superimposing bin Laden's head on a standard 12-inch doll figure that was already being made in the city of Dongguan. 
  
  
  
 Using widely-circulated images of bin Laden, a Chinese artist painted a doll face to look like the 9/11 perpetrator. 
  
  
  
 The doll was dressed in traditional robes and housed in a cheap cardboard box. 
  
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A:
To combat al-Qaeda in Pakistan, the CIA teamed up with one of the finest minds in the toy industry to create something even stranger than the exploding cigar it wanted to kill Fidel Castro with. The agency created an Osama bin Laden ­action figure treated with a heat-dissolving material that would peel off to reveal a demonic face, the Washington Post finds. The project, started in 2005, was code-named "Devil Eyes," and GI Joe creator Donald Levine played a key role in designing a doll to scare kids—and their parents—away from the terror network. One source says hundreds of the 12-inch dolls were shipped to Pakistan, but the CIA says the idea was rejected at the prototype stage and only three of the figures were ever made. "After being presented with these examples, the CIA declined to pursue this idea and did not produce or distribute any of these action figures," a spokesperson tells the Daily Mail. "Furthermore, CIA has no knowledge of these action figures being produced or distributed by others." Insiders say the CIA decided to tap Levine for the project because of his expertise and his contacts in China, where the toy could be mass-produced discreetly. "Don Levine was a dedicated patriot, and proud Korean War veteran," his family said in a statement. "When called on, he was honored to assist our country."