CIA & KGB Gadgets On Display

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."

Comments

MGB Gadgets?

[R2.0]

Like the one-of-a-kind Lucas alternator that works?

CIA has thier own museum.

[RobL3]

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/

Re:CIA has thier own museum.

[Anonymous Coward]

So does the NSA ...

http://www.nsa.gov/museum/index.html

Funny KGB Joke

[Commienst]

My Russian freind told me this joke one day.

Place and time: somewhere in the Soviet Union in 1930s.

The phone rings at KGB headquarters.
"Hello?"
"Hello, is this KGB?"
"Yes. What do you want?"
"I'm calling to report my neighbor Yankel Rabinovitz as an enemy of the
State. He is hiding undeclared diamonds in his firewood."
"This will be noted."

Next day, the KGB goons come over to Rabinovitz's house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept, break every piece of wood, find no diamonds, swear at Yankel Rabinovitz and leave.

The phone rings at Rabinovitz's house.
"Hello, Yankel! Did the KGB come?"
"Yes."
"Did they chop your firewood?"
"Yes, they did."
"Okay, now its your turn to call. I need my vegetable patch plowed."

The obvious irony...

[Bodrius]

I know this is stating the obvious, but:

A large wooden gift from your rivals?

And you accept it at face value and bring it into your fortress?

And it just happens to have a secret compartment with an electronic spy hidden in it?

Hello?

Weren't diplomats supposed to have gone to Ivy Schools where they teach all that literature in dead languages?

Another Secret Services Joke

[Commienst]

Apropos recent events, in case you're wondering what will become of all the unemployed KGB men in the event of a change of regime in the USSR, I was talking to a German friend recently and asked him what had become of all the former Stasi secret policement of East Germany.

"Oh they're all taxi drivers now," he said, "it was the obvious solution."

"Why is that?" I asked.

"Simple," he said, "you just give them your name--and they know where you live."

Re:"Liberator" pistols...

[Oggust]

Somehow, I don't think I'd want to brag about poorly designed, cheap guns that were dropped in large quantities to anyone claiming to be a "resistance fighter," which many times turned out to be a German intelligence operative. Or maybe they were hoping that the Germans would try to use them...

The germans already had (way better) guns. This was someting like a single-shot, non-reloadable pretty concealable .45. The idea was for the wannabe resistance fighter to kill a german soldier with it and take his gun. From what I understand the plan worked fairly well.

/August.