Mannequin

Military use of mannequins is recorded amongst the ancient Chinese, such as at the [[Battle of Yongqiu|siege of Yongqiu]]. The besieged Tang army lowered scarecrows down the walls of their castles to lure the fire of the enemy arrows. In this way, they renewed their supplies of arrows. Dummies were also used in the trenches in World War I to lure enemy snipers away from the soldiers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chinastrategies.com/list.htm |title=List of strategies |access-date=2012-10-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027011714/http://www.chinastrategies.com/List.htm |archive-date=2012-10-27 }}</ref>

Military use of mannequins is recorded amongst the ancient Chinese, such as at the [[Battle of Yongqiu|siege of Yongqiu]]. The besieged Tang army lowered scarecrows down the walls of their castles to lure the fire of the enemy arrows. In this way, they renewed their supplies of arrows. Dummies were also used in the trenches in World War I to lure enemy snipers away from the soldiers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chinastrategies.com/list.htm |title=List of strategies |access-date=2012-10-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027011714/http://www.chinastrategies.com/List.htm |archive-date=2012-10-27 }}</ref>

A [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) report describes the use of a mannequin ("Jack-in-the-Box") as a [[countersurveillance]] measure, intended to make it more difficult for the host country's [[counterintelligence]] to track the movement of CIA agents posing as diplomats. A "Jack-in-the-Box"{{Mdash}}mannequin representing the upper half of a human{{Mdash}}would quickly replace a CIA agent after he left the car driven by another agent and walked away, such that that any counterintelligence officers monitoring the car would believe, at least briefly, that they were still in it.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613111603/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article02.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2007 | title=Tolkachev, A Worthy Successor to Penkovsky. An Exceptional Espionage Operation|first=Barry G.|last= Royden|journal=Studies in Intelligence|volume=47|issue=3 |year=2003}}</ref>

A [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) report describes the use of a mannequin ("Jack-in-the-Box") as a [[countersurveillance]] measure, intended to make it more difficult for the host country's [[counterintelligence]] to track the movement of CIA agents posing as diplomats. A "Jack-in-the-Box"{{Mdash}}mannequin representing the upper half of a human{{Mdash}}would quickly replace a CIA agent after he left the car driven by another agent and walked away, such that any counterintelligence officers monitoring the car would believe, at least briefly, that they were still in it.<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613111603/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol47no3/article02.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 13, 2007 | title=Tolkachev, A Worthy Successor to Penkovsky. An Exceptional Espionage Operation|first=Barry G.|last= Royden|journal=Studies in Intelligence|volume=47|issue=3 |year=2003}}</ref>

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