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- Bicycle Escape Map Cards
- The Great Seal
- Pigeon Camera
- M-209 Cipher Machine
- Insectothopter
- Ice AX Used to Kill Trotsky
- George Washington Letter
- M-94 Cipher Device
- Bulgarian Umbrella
- Amber Drone
During World War II, the U.S. Playing Card Co. joined forces with American and British intelligence agencies to create a deck that helped Allied prisoners of war escape from German POW camps. Water was applied to reveal the map of escape routes.
Given to the United States ambassador to Russia in 1945 as a sign of "friendship," this replica of the Great Seal of the United States had an ulterior purpose. Inside the carved wood, the Soviets planted a bugging device in order to spy on the ambassador in his Moscow residence. The bug embedded in the seal was discovered accidentally after a Briti...
Before U-2 Dragon Ladyplanes and satellites and after hot air balloons, there were pigeons. During World War I, carrier pigeons, outfitted with a small camera, flew over military sites to gain images of the enemy's weapons and armor. Take note of the birds' wings in the edges of the photos!
Circa 1943, U.S. ArmyIssue: The M-209 is a small, lightweight, portable hand-operated mechanical cipher machine, developed by Hagelin in Sweden for the U.S. Army as the successor to the M-94 hand cipher.
1976, USSR (KGB): Russian intelligence made this model of the CIA's original 1976 Insectothopter -- a dragonfly-shaped drone that carried a microphone. It was too small to be remotely controlled, and there was no surveillance equipment tiny enough for it to carry.
The assassination of Leon Trotsky was known as the crime of the century when it occurred in Mexico in 1940. The ice-climbing ax used in the assassination was missing for decades before it resurfaced in 2005. The handle still sports a rust mark from a bloody fingerprint.
This original letter, written on Feb. 4, 1777, by George Washington, enlisted Mr. Nathaniel Sackett, a New Yorker who had proven himself a valuable spy catcher, as his "intelligence director." Washington agreed to pay him $50 per month, plus $500 to set up a spy network.
Circa 1922-1943, U.S. Army: The M-94 cipher device was used from 1922 to 1943 by the U.S. Army. Using the same principle as Thomas Jefferson's cipher device, disks are rotated to encipher a message. During WWII, the M-94 was replaced by the more complex M-209 (1943).
In 1978, the KGB used an umbrella like this -- modified to fire a tiny pellet filled with poison -- to assassinate dissident Georgi Markov on the streets of London.
The grandfather to the Predatordrone. This artifact, hanging from the ceiling of the Spy Museum's lobby, is the sixth model of the device ever produced.
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The state-of-the-art International Spy Museum offers enough spy-related intrigue and interactive fun to fill a whole day. Find hours, ticket info and more here.
Now open 7 days a week! With interactive exhibitions and installations, the foremost collection of spy artifacts in the world, and first-person accounts from top intelligence officers and experts, the International Spy Museum places visitors in the shoes of the spies.
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