You'd never suspect these things of being a spy's gadgets unless you are a spy. (Photo : Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's)Component parts of a limited edition replica of the gun from the film ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (estimate £6,000 - £9,000) are displayed on August 14, 2022 ahead of Sotheby's 'James Bond on Bond Street' auction in London, England.
These secret spy gadgets of the Cold War are super cool, and sometimes deadly.
When you think of the classic spy, you likely imagine a James Bond-esque gentleman in a sharp tuxedo, with plenty of weapons in his arsenal.
When Bond needed nifty espionage gadgets, like false fingerprints, a Rolex-turned-circular-saw or bagpipe flamethrower, he counted on the British Secret Service. When American operatives needed to snap photos on the down-low or transmit a secret code, they had the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Research and Development working the tech angles, and Russia had the KGB creating an arsenal of tools.
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compound. that s a hard one. [laughter] i kind of know the ending here, i will say i m highly confident. the center piece is spy gadgets like this cia pen and camera. you put it over a document, you take a photograph and you smuggle it out and it was we call it the camera that won the cold war. chris: and then there s this axe. melton spent 40 years tracking down one of the world s most famous murder weapons used by a soviet spy to kill leon, stalin regime. he came up behind him with two hands and just as he was about to strike he closed his eyes and instead of hitting him in the back of the head, he hit him in the side of the head. chris: his passion took him to
compound. that s a hard one. [laughter] i kind of know the ending here, i will say i m highly confident. the center piece is spy gadgets like this cia pen and camera. you put it over a document, you take a photograph and you smuggle it out and it was we call it the camera that won the cold war. chris: and then there s this axe. melton spent 40 years tracking down one of the world s most famous murder weapons used by a soviet spy to kill leon, stalin regime. he came up behind him with two hands and just as he was about to strike he closed his eyes and instead of hitting him in the back of the head, he hit him in the side of the head. chris: his passion took him to