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CIA & KGB Gadgets On Display

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-a-tthe-gear dept.

ricst writes "Been postponing that visit to the Reagan Presidential library? Well, delay no more, because they are hosting an exhibit of some formerly secret CIA and KGB gadgets. reports, "For the first time, the public is getting a large scale view of the CIA's and KGB's real-life James Bond gadgets, from a replica of the Russians' deadly poison-dart umbrella to some of the Amercians' most ingeniously concealed cameras." The last 200 years of history of technology is reflected in these spy devices that go back to the Revolutionary War."

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  1. CIA has thier own museum. by RobL3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Believe it or not, the CIA has thier own museum complete with cool old spy gizmos. It's even online at:
    http://www.cia.gov/cia/information/artifacts/

  2. NSA museum by asmithmd1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You might not believe it but the NSA has their own museum National Cryptologic Museum It has a real ENIGMA machine as well as the machine used to break the codes. The displays pretty much end in the 70's or 80's with a massive CRAY machine as the most modern thing they show

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  3. micro dot? by Em+Emalb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The article said the earliest microdot was made (i think) in 1854. Anyone know how this was done? Kinda light on details there.

    On a side note, where's the sharks with frickin' laser beams? They had Dr. Evil's ring, but not the sea bass? What gives?

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  4. Re:CIA article by Rolo+Tomasi · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The Division's products ranged from silenced pistols to limpet mines to "Aunt Jemima," an allegedly explosive powder packaged in Chinese flour bags.
    I've read about this stuff before once. From what I've heard you could even bake pancakes out of it and eat them! Anyone have more on this?
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  5. Re:The obvious irony... by Whomp-Ass · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...and here are a few pictures of that seal, along with an in depth story concerning past American blunders in the USSR...

    e.g. IIRC the embassy in the USSR (having been built by soviets, using soviet materials) was bugged *so* badly, deeply, and ingeniously that the US was forced to build several extra floors (using US labor and materials) on top of the original.

  6. no umbrella of our own, huh ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.jfk-assassination.de/articles/umbrella. html

    AC

  7. Re:The obvious irony... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've heard that decades later, the Russkys did it again, and the Amis fell for it again.

    That second time, it was a large metal seal. Of course, this time it was dutyfully searched for electronic listening devices, but none were found. The design was much more ingenious this time: the seal itself was the listening device. It would act as a giant microphone's membrane and vibrate along the sound waves. In order to listen in, the Russians would send an RF beam in its general direction, and the seal's vibrations would modulate the signal and reflect it back (remember: it was made of metal), carrying all conversations that happened near the seal.