From the dog's Human transmitter to the cryptographic machine, 10 choices of secret tools used by Spy

Located in Washington DC, USAInternational Spy MuseumThere were various introduction tools, especially the unique spy's secret instruments, chosen by the director.

In order to convey information to the enemy without knowing it, and to slip information on the enemy side secretly, cameras and weapons are installed in things that you see frequently in daily life. Imagine that the spies were dramatic about the information ... but it was naturally a battle raid that it was a battle against the gimmicks, so contrary to the fun of Gimmick, these secret utensils have a purposeful use purpose It seems to be.

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1: lipstick type pistol


A lipstick type pistol is a classic spy goods, which seems to be said that KGB agent was using around 1965. Whether it is a weapon related to "the kiss of death" (a kiss that Judas dedicated to Christ means etymology, meaning betrayal) "is not certain, but this small gun was used for assassination.

2: Court camera


The small camera F - 21 model that is set in the button hole of the coat says it was developed by KGB around 1970. When you twist the shutter cable, the button opens and the camera installed in it opens the picture. With this, it seems that he was drawn into a political rally without an identity check and he was shooting a decisive moment. Peter Earnest, a former CIA agent and now the director of the Spy Museum, says he has used this camera during his active career. If it is the present timeEven if put in breast pocket it is inconspicuous, a ball point pen type mini camera corresponding to 1280 x 960 resolutionEven if things like spies are not available.

3: Microdot


This small camera developed by HVA, Overseas Information Bureau of East Germany in the 1960s. By reducing the characters through the device and compressing the long sentences down to the period, we were able to print the messages with this camera, the agents were placing a message on the scenery which is unusual . During World War II, Spy's Dusko Popov tried to provide FBI with a micro dot on German trends, but FBI Secretary J. Edgar Hoover did not trust him, so this information I never crossed President Roosevelt.

4: Shoes with communication device


Over the 1960s and 1970s, Eastern European diplomats did not buy local clothes, they dared wearing the clothes we got from Western Europe. In Romania, the secret intelligence officials worked on the post office to make a dominant position, and had the heels of the shoes put in a communication machine.

5: Cryptographic machine


While communicating wirelessly during the Second World War, Germany used cryptography machines to prevent it from being intercepted and interpreted. It seems like a typewriter, but electricity is passing, the contents entered with the key are converted to Morse code, and a password that is changed every day is applied. Probably the most famous one is "EnigmaI guess.

6: Cryptographic disk


In the Civil War era, the South American Federation used this encryption disc. The way to use the device is straightforward, shifting by turning the middle disk, writing the alphabet written on the outside, using the letters of the inner disk as the replacement character, replacing P with J, etc. Alphabet as if it were alphabet It appears to appear to be written at random. So-calledCaesar cipherIt is the same mechanism.

7: Umbrella in Bulgaria


In 1978, a secret intelligence official in Bulgaria used this umbrella to assassinate anti-regulator Georgi Markov. When a trigger attached to a handle is pulled, a poison poison comes out mechanism. It seems that the umbrella used to assassinate Markov had been loaded with bullets, but it seems that replicas are being exhibited in the museum, as it has become missing.

Furthermore, in 1991 it seems that I found a room that kept an awful assassination umbrella like the mountain like above.

8: Pigeon camera


Before aerial photographs were made, pigeons played a role like reconnaissance aircraft. A pigeon attached with a camera that automatically shuts down flew over the enemy land and got serious information from photographed pictures. In addition to serving as a camera, it was also useful as a trading battle when wireless communication can not be used. Even GIGAZINE in the pastCamera to take photos from the sky far away in real bird view"That is similar to what I have described as an article.

9: Trunk interceptor for trees


An eavesdropping device resembling the tree trunk used in the 1970s was installed in the forest near Moscow and a solar system was installed so that it could operate without power. It blocked the signal from the Soviet air force base and had the function of sending it to the base of the US side. But KGB has found out this machine, so what is decorated in the museum is of course replica.

10: Dog type transmitter


I thought that it was not, but it seems that the one that used the transmitter in the dog was hollowed out, and it was used once. Dog Hun tends to be left as it is even if it falls in the street, so he seems to have been used to identify the enemy's position during the Vietnam War. However, it seems that the accident had not ended, as Hun was tidied up or accidentally found someone a transmitter ......