The eccentric engineer

In the midst of the Cold War, money was no object when it came to getting your hands on the opposition´s technology. The secrets behind world´s largest arcade game. DO YOU remember those claw grab machines on the end of the pier? How easy it was to manoeuvre the claw over the desired toy or teddy only for it then to slip out of the machine´s surprisingly weak grasp. Still, at least it only cost you a few pence. In 1974 it cost the CIA $800m (that´s a modest $3.6bn today).