The museum presented the preoccupation with espionage beginning in ancient times. Above is a picture of Rose O’Neal Greenhow who spied for the Confederacy during the American Civil War., 1861, helping the Confederate Army to victory in the first Battle of Bull Run.
This Navaho code talker was interviewed on video. In all of Japan only one person spoke Navaho, but he or she was ill.
Poster from WW I. Take care in conversation. The enemy is listening. (Ain’t it the truth.)
One of the original 40,000 Enigma machines used by the Germans in WW II. The code was broken by Alan Turing, who was later tried as a homosexual and driven to suicide.
Part of a model of the Glienicke Bridge (the Spy Bridge), site of exchanges of spies between East and West. On February 10, 1962, “Colonel Rudolph Abel, the Soviet master spy was exchanged for U2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers who was shot down while flying a covert spy mission over the Soviet Union” Berlin and Potsdam Global Guide.
The Glienicke Bridge (model).
An assassination pistol, which was hidden under a glove.
Georgi Markov, a dissident writer, “was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet containing ricin, fired into his leg from an umbrella wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service. It has been speculated that they asked the KGB for help.[2]” Wikipedia. Minuscule amount of ricin kill the victim in around four days.
The museum illustrated many vicious assassinations or attempts during our times. Agents included VX (Novichok nerve gas) used against Segei and Yullia Skripal (both of who survived) and polonium 210 against Alexander Litvinenko.
Litvinenko, a British naturalized Russian defector, dying from radiation poisoning.