The pill-shaped container was designed to be neatly stored in the body cavity where it could remain undetected during searches and possibly prove useful to agents needing to escape.
This rectal tool kit was issued to CIA agents during the 1960s at the height of the Cold War. However, some historians argue that the conflict never truly ended. The Cold War nominally ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. This underhanded “war” had peaks and valleys as tensions between East and West waxed and waned. Boasting a vast array of incredible artifacts in its collection which shed light on “spycraft,” the museum has shared a selection of the most devious devices in its collection with Military History Quarterly which span decades of the Cold War-the complex global political struggle between the Soviet Union, the United States, and nations allied with both. provides visitors with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the dark world of global espionage. The International Spy Museum (SPY) in Washington, D.C.
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In light of the many and varied amazing spy “gadgets” that have appeared in popular films and television shows about espionage-cue Oddjob’s razor-edged hat in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger-anyone can be forgiven for thinking that such over-the-top contraptions are merely the brainchildren of imaginative screenwriters.
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