A Gallery of CIA Spy Cameras

In lionise the launching of Spycraft , I ’ve await atall kinds of widget , but the bread and butter of Cold War CIA paraphernalia were midget cameras and hearing twist . The microbe are n’t so exciting to look at , though the floor of their placement make dandy reading . The cameras , on the other hand , always come in apt “ concealments . ”

The agency ’s star television camera was the T-100 , so named because it could take images of up to 100 full - sized documents on a small-arm of plastic film measuring 4 mm wide-cut by 15 mm long — and that babe could be engraft anywhere . Hollywood may have desensitized you to the spycam notion , but remember , the image you see here are of totally real devices that were actually used in death - hold up espionage . Hey , heedful where you level that necktie , buddy .

All of this CIA tech and much more like it is covered with great depth and hair - raising anecdotes inSpycraft , a raw book by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton , reviewed by us , and useable for pre - order atAmazon .

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