The Cyrillic acronym of the Soviet National Security Council is КГБ, transliterated as the famous KGB, which was known as the world's four major intelligence agencies along with the CIA, MI6 and the Israeli Mossad during the Cold War. The KGB was known for planning several assassinations during the Cold War. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB was reorganized into the Russian Federal Security Service, which still has great influence around the world.
What comes to mind when you think of the KGB, Lubyanka Square, Gulag? Their work is often much more complex
Many people have always been interested in Russian agents during the Cold War, although the Soviet era has been tightly guarded about the details of the KGB's work. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the dusty past of many years ago was revealed, in fact, the lives of the agents were not as dashing as depicted in the movie, on the contrary, their appearance was mostly bland, there was no overly advanced black technology weapons, and there was no fragrant car beauty to accompany them, as an intelligence officer, one of their most important skills was to hide themselves in the crowd, and the weapons of kgb spies were naturally as low-key as possible.
The "glove gun" used by the KGB was enough to kill people at the moment of raising its hand
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > "Cheka" founder Dzerzhinsky with his FED spy camera</h1>
The KGB naturally begins with its founder, Dzerzhinsky, who was born into an aristocratic family in Poland and was arrested several times in his early years in Poland and Lithuania. He then joined the CPSU and was mainly responsible for intelligence activities. During the October Revolution, he was responsible for communications between the Smolny Palace and the rebel army, and made a great contribution to the overthrow of Tsarist Russia. After the establishment of the Soviet Union, he single-handedly established the All-Russian Purge Committee, referred to as the "Cheka", the predecessor of the KGB.
The founder of the "Cheka", Dzerzhinsky, was himself a Soviet intelligence master
The KGB used spy cameras, the lens disguised as a button, the shutter in the pocket can be pressed
It is worth mentioning that he also presided over the establishment of the Dzerzhinsky Commune (F. Dzerzhinski Commune). E. Dzerzhinsky Labour Commune), which later developed into the Fed Optical Machinery Manufacturing Research Consortium, fed is the abbreviation of Dzerzhinsky's full name. It was dedicated to the production of various spy cameras for Soviet intelligence organizations, and it was here that the first Soviet 35 mm camera was born. After the victory of World War II, the Soviet Union obtained a large number of technicians, production equipment and even raw materials from the German occupation zone, such as ZEISS and Laika, which made the Soviet optical industry develop and grow rapidly.
This camera disguised as a tie, which cost no matter the cost, was quite expensive at the time
During the Cold War, as the KGB continued to grow and the technology of East-West espionage warfare continued to upgrade, the Soviet Union developed miniature cameras disguised as buttons and ties, which were secrets in the Cold War, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Leningrad Optical Machinery Association quickly became popular among folk photography enthusiasts, and the current LOMO style photos are actually Russian Лениградское Оптико-Мехенический Обьединение, also known as the Leningrad Optical Machinery Association, which makes a large number of shoddy cameras here, but because of its unique imaging effect, it is popular among photography enthusiasts.
Popular with collectors, KGB spy cameras are well-crafted and expensive
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > confusing case of "poisonous umbrella"</h1>
In addition to spy cameras, KGB agents also used a variety of special weapons, and on September 7, 1978, The Bulgarian opposition writer George Markov, who had defected to Britain, was accidentally poked with an umbrella on his way to work, and developed a high fever that night and died of multiple organ failure just 3 days later. Autopsy reports revealed that he had a needle-tip-sized metal ball under the skin of his thigh, which had two small holes in it, containing the deadly ricin.
The "poisonous umbrella" displayed in the museum shows that its internal structure is quite complex, and it is enough to kill people with a light poke
Ricin can dissolve red blood cells, inhibit paralysis of the cardiovascular and respiratory centers, and lead to liver and kidney failure, and George Markov was killed by that umbrella, which is the famous case of poisonous umbrellas during the Cold War. It was not until 1990, on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, that Oleg Goldievsky, who had worked as a double agent in the KGB and Britain, was made public, and it was the KGB that provided Bulgarian agent Gulino with a "poison umbrella" launcher and ricin.
George Markov, who fled to England, still could not escape the agents
In 1992, another Soviet agent, Oleg Kaludin, also confirmed Gordyevsky's claims, but the Bulgarian agent Gulino, whom they identified, denied this, and in 1993, the United States and Danish intelligence departments arrested Gulino, but due to the lack of evidence, he could only be released.
The internal structure of the poisonous umbrella is actually a silent pistol
The small ball taken out of Makov's thigh, filled with poison, was the real cause of his death
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the "kiss of death" of a female agent</h1>
In addition to the poisonous umbrella, the KGB also developed two more concealed weapons, their construction and principle are very similar, but the use is far from the same, first of all, the LIPSTIC gun used by the KGB "swallows". The so-called "swallows" are female spies trained by the KGB during the Cold War, who use beauty to seduce important tasks in the West, and the efficiency is very high, and the KGB says that these female spies are collectively called "swallows". It is worth mentioning that the KGB has also trained many beautiful men and seduced important women in NATO, who are called "crows".
The kgB female spies "Swallow" special miniature firearms, its workmanship is enough to be fake
In 1965, the West seized a peculiar weapon, which was very small in structure, designed and manufactured by the KGB, and very rare in number. The appearance of this weapon is no different from that of a women's lipstick, but it is actually a 4.5 mm caliber pistol. When used, the protrusion on the gun can fire a bullet, specifically used to assassinate important people, because the gun has a very small caliber, in order to enhance the lethality, the bullet will also be applied to a powerful toxin, Westerners will call this weapon the image of "kiss of death".
The "lipstick gun" was captured by NATO intelligence as early as 1965, so the life of this weapon is very short
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > miniature pistol hidden inside</h1>
The miniature firearms used by male agents are far less romantic, and the KGB has specially developed a "rectal single-shot pistol", which, as the name suggests, was originally designed to hide in chrysanthemums. Its technology is the same as the LIPSTIC gun previously used by the KGB, but its structure is more compact, only 4.5 centimeters long, and it can be fired by turning the barrel a quarter, specifically for dealing with high-value targets in the West, but before using it, you have to find a way to pull it out, think about how sour the process is.
The miniature firearm used by male agents is much more "obscene", and it must be removed from the rectum before use
Another "rectal capsule" invented by the KGB can hide important items such as microfilm
In addition to hiding guns, the KGB also developed "rectal capsules" capable of carrying important small items such as semi-compartment microfilm, poison and notes. This method was indeed very useful in the case of underdeveloped technology at that time, but now metal detectors can easily detect metal objects hidden in the rectum. By the way, don't think that Western spies can be much more elegant, the CIA has also developed a more outrageous "rectal combination knife capsule", a small metal tube contains pliers, screwdrivers, files, drills and other tools, which can be regarded as a Swiss Army knife in the rectum.
The U.S. CIA has a similar piece of equipment, which is a "rectal capsule" developed by it, which contains various tools
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the development of modern weapons of the same type</h1>
Although technology is developing faster and faster, in recent years there have been incidents of weapons being carried through the rectum, and in order to avoid being recognized by metal detection instruments, these objects are made of hardened composite materials and carbon fibers, etc., and they are deliberately made into irregular shapes to mimic the state of feces, and the weapons they carry have also become needles with aquatic shellfish or mollusk fast-acting poisons, or miniature eavesdropping devices.
This kind of thing happens from time to time in modern times, this is a prisoner who tries to carry a gun into prison
It is worth mentioning that in 2009, there was also a bizarre suicide attack in Saudi Arabia, the target of the then Saudi Ministry of the Interior Vice Minister Mohammed bin Naif, because he repeatedly attacked terrorist organizations during his tenure, resulting in terrorists retaliating against him, but it is a difficult thing to get close to the prince himself, in order to break through the obstacles, the 23-year-old extremist in exile abroad, Dali Ayah Al-Assiri, made a statement to Iran before the Celebration of Ramadan in August, He said he was going to surrender with a large number of extremists. But in fact, Asiri's purpose was to launch a suicide attack on Prince Nayef as a "human bomb", in order to avoid the Layers of Saudi Fortifications, he stuffed a large amount of explosives in his rectum, and all the way avoided the layers of security checks at Yemen's Najran Airport and Saudi Arabia's Western Jeddah Airport, and took Naif's private plane all the way to the western Saudi city of Jeddah.
Prince Mohammed bin Naif, Saudi's under-minister of the Interior, who focuses on counter-terrorism
Dali Ai Asiri, who acted as a "human bomber" in the attack, had a hard time imagining how he hid the bomb in his rectum
A messy explosion scene
That night, Asiri participated in Prince Naif's Ramadan rally. He pretended that a large number of militants wanted to flee back to Saudi Arabia from Yemen, but he was afraid that Saudi Arabia would carry out "autumn reckoning" against them, and wanted to make Prince Naif personally promise to protect the safety of the militants on the phone, in fact, this was just a trap, Prince Naif dialed the phone, and then detonated the bomb hidden in Asiri's rectum, but sadly, although Prince Naif was only a few meters away from the attacker, because the bomb exploded inside Asiri's body, he became the only one killed in that attack. Prince Naif, on the other hand, suffered only some skin trauma.