Awesome spy gadgets ever used by secret agents

Spy gadgets are everyone’s favorite not only because they exhibit super advanced technologies but also because they are not available for everyone. So, here is a list of five amazing spy gadgets that were actually used by spies during the Second World War and the cold war:

1

Bulgarian Umbrella

In 1978, a Bulgarian dissident named Georgi Markov was killed by a Bulgarian umbrella on the streets of London by suspected Bulgarian secret agents. A Bulgarian umbrella looks like any common umbrella from the outside but it is internally modified so that it can inject its target with deadly poison from a distance just by pressing a trigger. The Bulgarian secret agents mostly used ricin as the poison because only one 1mg of ricin is enough to kill a person and it is almost impossible to trace. During the cold war, it was widely used by the secret agents of many countries of Eastern Europe. In 1991, an entire room filled with these deadly umbrellas was discovered in Bulgaria.

Pigeon Camera

Before the invention of spy satellites, pigeons were used for aerial photography of enemy territories. Until the 1950s, cameras on autoshoot mode were tied around a pigeon’s neck and were made to fly over the enemy territories for obtaining vital information. Besides photography, pigeons were also used to carry secret messages in the event of spotty radio communications.

3

Microdot Camera

In the sixties, the secret agents of East Germany used this tiny camera to photograph important documents of the enemy nations. The most unique feature of this Microdot camera was that after taking the pictures, it undergoes a chemical process which makes the text shrink into a very small block of text to prevent any suspicion. Moreover, because of its small size and unique way of processing information, it came in very handy for the secret agents for giving and receiving confidential information within the enemy territories.

Coat camera

This little coat camera of Model F-21 was used by the KGB in the seventies. It can be installed in a buttonhole and can take pictures of public places, public events and political rallies without even getting detected. Besides KGB, this coat camera was also used by a number of secret agents of the CIA during the cold war.

4

Lipstick pistol

The 4.5mm single-shot pistol installed in a lipstick was found in the possession of a KGB agent during the cold war. It is still unclear if this small yet dangerous weapon was ever used to accomplish any assassination.

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