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Check Out Some Real Life James Bond Spy Shit

May 22, 2012subwaycreatures

In the 40s, spies were using cameras smaller than your smartphone!

The OSS designed the Beano grenade to feel like a baseball and explode on impact — rather than bouncing away from its target and blowing up elsewhere.

Spies in Moscow in the 60s had a variety of “dead drops” they could use to secretly pass around notes and other contraband, including these hollow bricks.

And they all fit in this handy dandy sheath.

Spies aren’t usually assassins. But some weapons, like this umbrella, have been used in the field. The assassination umbrella is equipped with a pellet of toxic ricin that will infect and kill its target slowly over the course of a few days. Its last known use was on Bulgarian defector and BBC reporter Georgi Markov in London, 1978.

Spies would use fake, exploding coal to sabotage supply lines — and this paint set to make the coal look real.

Think you could be a spy? Try floating a one-man submarine into Singapore harbor and planting mines on Japanese ships in World War II. Not easy, but this submersible is cool.

With these bad boys, you could even get away BEFORE the explosion.

Rats’ hollowed-out bodies also served as an effective dead drop for money, notes and other contraband being moved around Moscow.

If a CIA operative were caught, he could choose capture or death by this pin. When twisted the right way, the silver dollar would unleash a pin coated in saxitoxin. Its user would die in seconds from the poison.

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