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Posted by Ultradog MN on February 26, 2007 at 15:34:52 from (71.220.62.43):
In Reply to: Black Farmalls posted by JBONE2016 on February 26, 2007 at 09:30:47:
The CIA ordered several Black Farmalls back in the day. They and the FBI used them to keep an eye on some of them groups like the Wobblies, the Grangers other radical farm and industrial groups. Of course as the US became less agricultural and more urban, tractors of any color were not so easy to fit into the landscape and were discontinued as spy vehicles. Nowadays you hear a lot about black Helicopters spying on various nefarious groups. All just a part of the general modernization of spyware. I heard somewhere that most of them Black Farmalls were sent along as transport vehicles during the Bay of Pigs. Of course old Castro snapped them up and repainted them Commie Pink. I guess several of them (like all good Farmalls)are still running and doing usefull work in the cane fields but Fidel is too weak to ride them any more.
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