Bizarre gadgets of the secret agents
Animals drafted into the secret service
Weird milestones of the space race
Mind games and psychological warfare
YOUR GOAL
Master of Cold War secrets
misslily Spy gadgets
Fly, dragonfly, fly! (Fly, dragonfly, fly!) With a microphone in the sky!
misslily A secret transmitter hidden in a diplomat's shoe heel by Romanian intelligence.
misslily Sort bizarre inventions to discover the Cold War's strangest spy gadgets and space-race quirks.
Spy tree stump: In 1970, the CIA placed a fake tree stump near Moscow to intercept Soviet air defense signals, powered entirely by solar panels.
A small mechanical or electronic device, especially one that is ingenious or novel. During the Cold War, the CIA developed these, including a robotic dragonfly built in 1974.
What lethal toxin was delivered by the modified Bulgarian umbrella used to assassinate Georgi Markov in 1978?
Where did the CIA plant a fake tree stump transmitter in the 1970s to intercept Soviet military signals?
What did the CIA hide inside a hollowed-out silver dollar to help captured pilots?
What was the name of the CIA's explosive flour mixture designed for sabotage during and after World War II?
What famous coin did Cold War spies commonly use to hide microdots and secret messages?
Which country's intelligence agency hid a secret transmitter inside a US diplomat's shoe heel in the 1960s?