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This probably already exists. I don't believe they'd need to fry the brain, just explode it or titrate certain drugs.

citation needed.

Nah. We can hypothesize very conservatively based off of what we knew existed in the 1960s-- agency issued suicide pills, and remotely detonated explosive molar implants to prevent squealing (albeit with a quite short range because of technical limitations at the time).

citation still needed. Don't confuse 60s TV shows with reality.

Well, suicide pills are certainly possible. The question is whether any agencies use them. To that end I have no idea.

I do question exploding molar implants, however... that seems like something straight out of a cheesy spy movie. If those do exist I'd love to see what the idea in using them was, because that's kind of funny.

Here ya go, citation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pill#Examples

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