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Totally dating myself here.

In the Hardy Boys book “Hostages of Hate”, Frank Hardy’s girlfriend, Callie Shaw, is kidnapped and is able to send a secret message to Frank by blinking her eyes on a video recording.

Funny what sticks in your mind from a young age.



There is a Hardy Boys book in which one of the boys makes a phone call to family with some nefarious person present. He holds an innocent conversation while sending a message in Morse code by tapping the phone with a pencil.


Based on an actual event from the Vietnam war iirc.



In the 21st century this would be:

kidnapped by terrorists and forced to read a statement.

IIRC this was used in Homeland, the TV show.




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