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Pick your poison babe, I’m poison either way 🧪
All this talk of rings makes us think of the KGB poison ring in our SPY Vault! This clandestine assassination device from the Cold War is made with a blue carved stone scarab that unscrews to reveal a short spike, which would be coated in poison.
Style, impact, and quite the statement piece 💍❤️‍🔥
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#SPYArtifact: Insectothopter model, KGB, ca. 1990s.

Russian intelligence made this model of CIA's original 1976 Insectothopter – a dragonfly-shaped drone that carried a microphone. https://bit.ly/3UO9DED

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#SpyArtifact - Stirn's Buttonhole Camera, Germany, c. 1886

Meet the world's first "Buttonhole Camera." Hidden in a vest pocket, it shot through a buttonhole and held six photos. Users pulled a string to release the shutter.

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#SpyArtifact - "Meadow" the Stasi Bra Camera, c. 1985. #WHM

Designed to be worn with a summer dress, this bra camera features a built-in sub-miniature camera & a shutter controlled by a remote release in the pocket. Female agents could snap surveillance photos inconspicuously.

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When an American diplomat in an East European country sent his shoes out for repair, the local counter-intelligence agency outfitted them with a hidden microphone and transmitter.

#SPYArtifact: Shoe heel transmitter, Romanian Secret Service, 1960s.

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