Spies from the past decades were clearly creative with the way they hid weapons and tools.
Much of the gear housed at the International Spy Museum shows their tools were weird like Inspector Gadget more than sleek like James Bond.
There isn't much glamorous about a rectal storage compartment that holds 10 tools or a bulky pigeon camera.
Hollow Coin
1950s-1990s
M-94 Cipher Device
Circa 1922-1943
Escape Boot
Circa 1939-1945
Ring Guns
19th Century
One-Time Pad (Silk)
Circa 1930-1940
Lighter Camera
Late 1970s
Gas Assassination Weapon
1950s
Steineck ABC Wristwatch Camera
Circa 1949
Rose O'Neal Greenhow Embroidery
Suitcase Radio, Model AN/PRC-5
Circa 1944-1945
Tessina Camera and Cigarette Case Concealment
1960s
Briefcase Recorder
1950s
Microdot Camera
1960s
Brass Knuckles
1939-1947
Concealment Ring for Microdots
1960s
Minox
Secret Cipher Ashtray
Circa 1930-1940
Glove Pistol
Circa 1942-1945
Courier Shoes with Container
1980s
Confederate Civil War Cipher Disk
Circa 1862
Coal Camouflage Kit and Explosive Coal
Circa 1942-1945
Liberator Pistol with Ammunition and Manual
Circa 1942-1945
Virginia Hall Identification Document
Circa 1939-1955
Hairbrush Concealment for Minox Camera
1960s-1970s
Battery Concealment with Three Tropel Camera Bodies
Late 1970s
Lock Pick Kit
1970s
M-209 Cipher Machine
Circa 1943
G-Men Toys
Flashlight Gun
1930s
Tobacco Pipe Pistol
Circa 1939-1945
Smoking kills: This little pipe was a pistol used by the British Special Forces during World War II and could fire a a small projectile
John Walker Briefcase
Circa 1980s
Dead Drop Spikes
1960s-1990s
Echo 8 Lighter Camera
Japan, 1950s
Pigeon Camera
Pigeon photographer: This camera seems bulky by today's standards, but it was used to sneakily photograph fortifications in World War I
Enigma Machine
Bond Car
George Washington Spy Letter
1777
Rectal Tool Kit
1960s
Pain in the rear: This rectal unit sneakily stored up to 10 deadly tools
Buttonhole Camera, Model F-21
Circa 1970
Shoe with Heel Transmitter
1960s-1970s
Pencil Clip Compass
Circa 1939-1945
Iraqi “Most Wanted” Playing Cards
c. 2003
Hand Grenade with Booby Trap Device
Circa 1942-1945
Time Delay Pencils
Circa 1943-1945
Camera Concealed in Briefcase
1970s-1980s
Eyeglasses with Concealed Cyanide Pills
Circa 1975-1977
These glasses used by the CIA from 1975 to 1977 concealed cyanide pellets
Bulgarian Umbrella
1978
This Bulgarian umbrella from 1978 killed dissident Georgi Markov on the streets of London by shooting a tiny poison pellet
Fountain Pen Camera
Late 1970s
Lipstick Pistol
Circa 1965
Killer kisses: This harmless looking lipstick is actually a pistol used by the KGB in 1975
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