The octopus is not just the in thing for hipster pillow designs — the US governments taken a liking to it once again, and has plastered it onto its latest space delivery. A spokesperson for the National Reconnaissance Office downplayed any suggestions that the intent of the logo was evil, or designed to intimate. The US used imagery of an octopus wrapping tentacles around the world as part of propaganda during the cold war, depicting Joseph Stalin as a giant red octopus, stretching from country to country.