10 Cool KGB Spy Devices that Will Blow Your Mind

They are straight out of a James Bond thriller

photo credits: Sammy-Williams from Pixabay (left), Ben White on Unsplash(right)

The KGB or Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (roughly translates to Committee for State Security) was the security agency of the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 till 3 December 1991. They were the Soviet version of America’s CIA, carrying out several espionage missions.

KGB Headquarters Анна Иларионова from Pixabay

Thanks to Hollywood’s innumerable spy thrillers, we don’t need a lengthy introduction about the life of a CIA or KGB agent. Of Course, the movies offer a slightly far-fetched version of their risk-ridden existence, but those cinematic depictions are closer than we imagine.

Actor Daniel Craig as James Bond. photo credit: TNS Sofres via flickr

For instance, the KGB agents possessed many state-of-the-art secret gadgets similar to those we admired from countless James Bond films. Those devices helped them gather secret information or carry out assassinations without grabbing a lot of eyeballs.

Let’s look at ten such interesting devices that you might have believed to exist only…