I agree 100% that Kano created the sport of judo to be a version of jiu jitsu which could be used safely at full speed and strength, but a competition-legal judo shime-waza (chokehold) could turn into a lethal one pretty easily.
Then there’s Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery and master of the judo CHOP!
Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
Heh heh, when I read it I was thinking somebody at the CIA in 1970 had been watching Austin Powers, too 
When I was a teenager I studied Aikido with a group who, years later, I learned had picked up their technique not from any of the major Aikido societies (Ki, Aikikai, Yoshinkan, etc) but from Black Dragon Society e.g. That mail-in martial arts scam from 70s American comic books. Wow, aside from the basic techniques it was so different (and much more violent) than the Aikikai I study these days. I guess I could imagine some beefy mail-order guy teaching CIA operatives a weird Judo that was basically Jujitsu with more murder.
Also, damn, sounds like Judo competitions got serious. Granted, I never did it at anything more than at a local level, but all holds were restricted to joint manipulation - arms, legs, shoulders, etc. All strikes were only ever practiced in kata, too: competition was strictly only throws and the aforementioned holds.
If you try to kill the king, you need to kill the king.
Related to my observation that an attempt to overthrow the government is a crime, and a revolution’s anniversary is a public holiday.
My version is much more vindictive.
I read that “sporting goods” line and was confused, because until just now I thought it was an icepick like the pointy awl thing you’d use to chip away at a block of ice, and what sport is that ever used in?
Competitive bartending?
DIY Lawn Darts?
It was likely chosen as a generic term for martial arts, they just as easily could’ve used karate.
A good book taking about the moral issues around spying in general - http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Play-Moral-Dilemmas-Spying/dp/1597971537
Came to me as more of a “banality of evil” sort of image.
It’s from “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”-- the later film, not the bbc miniseries.
Well sure… the meaning is obvious, but the set is incredible!
Assasination step 1 shave head step 2 get barcode tattoo. Step 3 put on disguise and shoot everyone anyway.
It certainly does make for interesting contrast with this sort of thing.
M’s office is protected against eavesdropping, but the leather padding against the door just adds to the decor.
By contrast, the circus’s meetings look like pods erected in the middle of an open plan office. On the outside, they’re quite ugly and temporary looking-- but on the other hand, if the mole plants an microphone on the outside, it’s there for everyone to see, avoid, and finally dismantle. The padded walls aren’t leather. They’re acoustic foam, and prone to oxidizing to that lovely orange oxide color which is either allowed to grow, or disguised by a garish factory dye that can’t decide whether it’s role is to accentuate the oxidizing effect or to mask it.
It also has a role to play in Blue Orange Cinematography…
