TOP SECRET
DATE:
DAY 167 - OCTOBER 06/2022
LOCATION:
WASHINGTON SPY MUSEUM
MISSION:
INFILTRATE THE MUSEUM AT 11:30, LOCATE AND DOCUMENT ALL SECRET EQUIPMENT PROVIDED IN DOSSIER.
EXTRACTION:
THE EXTRACTION POINT WILL BE THROUGH THE SMITHSONIAN'S MUSEUM OF ASIAN ART.
MISSION DEBRIEF:
YOU MAY THINK SPY MOVIES ARE MADE FROM THE MINDS OF HOLLYWOOD FILM PRODUCERS. THE MOVIES HYPE IT UP, BUT THE GADGETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND PEOPLE ARE REAL.
James Bonds Aston Martin from Goldfinger. This car inspired actual spy agencies to develop similar features.
In the Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), the murderous henchman Jaws had steel teeth that could bite through steel cable. Teeth from the show shown above.
Venice was an economic and political superpower in the 15th and 16th centuries. Venetian silk weavers, glassmakers, and shipbuilders were forbidden to spill the secrets of their crafts or even leave town-sometimes on pain of death!
Venice’s rulers, the council of ten, knew that protecting the city’s power and status required protecting its trade secrets. They created one of the earliest and most effective intelligence systems: the Venetian Secret Service.
The Turtle was the worlds first submersible vessel with documented record of use in combat. Built in 1775 as a means to attaching explosive charges to ships in harbour.
The US Embassy in Moscow was mid-construction when it was discovered that the cement was riddled with soviet bugs. The top floors were torn down and a steel frame built. Above is a piece of cement from the US embassy with bugs in it.
KGB umbrella that was capable of inserting a poisons pellet into the skin of the victim. The pellet is coated with wax and melts at body temperature releasing what is believed to be ricin, a powerful poison twice as toxic as cobra venom.
Six foot section of the Berlin Tunnel the west had built under East Germany, enabling them to tap into Russian phone lines.
British one man submersible boat. Code named Sleeping Beauty. Capable of traveling 40 nautical miles at a speed of 4.4 knots, test depth was at 50 feet.
In 1945, a group of Soviet children visited the US Embassy in Moscow and gave the Ambassador a hand-carved Great Seal of the US. It stayed in his office until 1952…. When technicians discovered a remarkable listening device inside.
Scrotum concealment. This never made it beyond the prototype stage. Designed to conceal a small escape radio: male security guards, it was thought, would not throughly search mens genital area.
German spy Pigeon with camera 1914-1918
During the Cold War, the CIA used gutted rats as dead drops for messages, money, and film to be passed to agents. The rats were doused with pepper sauce to deter scavengers from taking off with it.
Common place to hide spy tech is in feces.
Operation Fortitude was a large deception strategy to make the Germans think the Allies were amassing an army in Dover for an invasion at Calais. All equipment at the staging zone were inflatables, as the Germans recognizance planes flew by they looked like real tanks, planes and barracks.
Actual German Enigma coding machine that was captured by the allies.
Rectal toolkit, filled with ten escape tools.
Cyber attacks can be destructive. This shard was once part of a sturdy diesel-powered electric generator. US government researchers destroyed the machine in a 2007 test demonstrations that cyberattacks can destroy hardware as well as software. The cyberattack wrecked the generator by altering its operating cycle. In doing so, it made the generator vibrate so violently that it tore itself apart.
Like you see in the movies, double agents and traitors do happen in government agencies. A special task force was created in sniffling out and revealing tractors and spins. The logo for this task force was the American eagle with a rat hanging out of its mouth.
Even though torture is condemned by the American Government and denies any involvement in torturing prisoners. It is known that other countries and organizations do use it. This just happens to be a water boarding kit for US spies… hmmmm
Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Asian Art.
Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room includes over two hundred bronze artifacts, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet, China, and Mongolia between the thirteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Back entrance to the Smithsonian Castle.