DC -- International Spy Museum (New Location) -- 6. An Uncertain World:
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SPY6U_190507_003.JPG: An Uncertain World
SPY6U_190507_008.JPG: Turncoats & Traitors
SPY6U_190507_021.JPG: Congratulations, Agent Hanssen
In 2000, the FBI suspected Robert Hanssen of spying. So why did they promote him and present him with this service award?
The award was bogus. The promotion was a sham. The FBI's real goal was to move Hanssen to FBI headquarters without arousing his suspicion, and settle him into a new (bugged!) office where they could keep him under closer surveillance.
SPY6U_190507_025.JPG: Hanssen's Apology
On July 6, 2001, Robert Hanssen pled guilty to espionage. At his trial he read aloud this letter of apology, saying "I am shamed."
SPY6U_190507_027.JPG: Digital Evidence
SPY6U_190507_036.JPG: Robert Hanssen
Fox Guarding the Henhouse
SPY6U_190507_040.JPG: Adolf Tolkachev
Traitor or Hero?
SPY6U_190507_044.JPG: The Cambridge Five
SPY6U_190507_050.JPG: Guy Burgess' typed note
This note is from Burgess' time at the British Foreign Office. Here and at other posts, he had ready access to British and American secrets.
SPY6U_190507_057.JPG: Kim Philby's flash
Philby spent the last 25 years of his life in Moscow. Given little work, he suffered from depression and drank heavily.
SPY6U_190507_062.JPG: Kim Philby
Upper-Crust Double-Crosser
SPY6U_190507_099.JPG: Interrogation Techniques
Making Them Talk
SPY6U_190507_101.JPG: Heretic's Fork
SPY6U_190507_103.JPG: Iron Maiden
SPY6U_190507_106.JPG: Thumb Screw
SPY6U_190507_109.JPG: "Get Rough"
SPY6U_190507_115.JPG: Evolution of Enhanced Interrogation
September 11, 2001: America Attacked
Terror attacks. Pres. Bush signs classified covert operation authorizing CIA to detain terrorists and interrogate detainees worldwide.
SPY6U_190507_118.JPG: Feb 2002: "Enemy Combatants"
Pres. Bush signs order the classifies captured terrorists as "enemy combatants," not prisoners of war, avoiding the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture.
SPY6U_190507_120.JPG: Mar 2002: Water Boarding
1st CIA detainee, Abu Zubaydah, is waterboarded 83 times in 5 sessions.
SPY6U_190507_121.JPG: Aug 2002: Legally Permissible
Justice Department concludes CIA's Enhanced Interrogation techniques are not torture.
SPY6U_190507_122.JPG: Jun 2004: CIA Suspends
CIA Director George Tenet suspends interrogation techniques, pending legal review.
SPY6U_190507_125.JPG: May 2005: DOJ Reapproval
DOJ reapproves enhanced interrogation techniques.
SPY6U_190507_127.JPG: Jun 2006: Supreme Court Rules
United States Supreme Court rules Geneva Conventions apply to all US detainees.
SPY6U_190507_130.JPG: July 2007: Program Continues
Pres. Bush allows some methods of Enhanced Interrogation that do not violate the Geneva Conventions and are approved by the Justice Dept.
SPY6U_190507_133.JPG: Jan 2009: Enhanced Interrogation Ends
Pres. Obama formally ends the Program, restricting future interrogation to techniques in the US Army Field Manual.
SPY6U_190507_144.JPG: The Rack
SPY6U_190507_147.JPG: What Is Torture?
SPY6U_190507_150.JPG: Water Boarding
SPY6U_190507_154.JPG: Waterboarding Kit
How does waterboarding work? What does it feel like? How can one endure it? There's only one way to know.
Naval intelligence and counterterrorism officer Malcom Nance used this waterboarding kit while chief of training at the US Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School. An interrogator would hold the towel over a subject's mouth and nose while pouring water from the cup onto the person's face.
SPY6U_190507_159.JPG: Does "Enhanced Interrogation" Work?
It depends on who you ask. Many are confident that strong methods are effective. Other including experienced interrogators, psychologists, and people who have endured such techniques, believe that less severe forms of questioning yield better results.
SPY6U_190507_164.JPG: Confronting Terror
SPY6U_190507_166.JPG: June 1919
Fear Unsettles America
SPY6U_190507_174.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We Live
SPY6U_190507_177.JPG: April 1995
Oklahoma City Bombing
SPY6U_190507_179.JPG: Response: Catching McVeigh
SPY6U_190507_181.JPG: What Motivated the Bombers?
SPY6U_190507_193.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We Work
SPY6U_190507_197.JPG: Munich 1972
Death at the Olympics
SPY6U_190507_201.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We Play
SPY6U_190507_213.JPG: A City Becomes a Prison
SPY6U_190507_215.JPG: The Death Strip
SPY6U_190507_222.JPG: Great Escapes
SPY6U_190507_224.JPG: Switching Sides
SPY6U_190507_232.JPG: Smashing the Wall
SPY6U_190507_234.JPG: Balloon Breakout
SPY6U_190507_237.JPG: An Aerial Escape
SPY6U_190507_245.JPG: When The Wall Fell
SPY6U_190507_255.JPG: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
SPY6U_190507_267.JPG: The Terrible, Beloved Trabant
SPY6U_190507_275.JPG: The Stasi Is Watching
SPY6U_190507_278.JPG: For the Well-Groomed Spy
SPY6U_190507_280.JPG: Are You Being Watched?
Can you outwit the eyes and ears of Stasi surveillance? Ordinary-looking objects can be tracking your every move. Spot them before they spot you!
SPY6U_190507_282.JPG: An Innocent Iron?
SPY6U_190507_290.JPG: Even the kids can help! The Stasi used diplomats' families to smuggle spy gear into the West: who'd guess each of these toys conceal a small document copy camera?
SPY6U_190507_296.JPG: Make Them Talk
SPY6U_190507_298.JPG: Locked Away
SPY6U_190507_307.JPG: Death at the Wall
SPY6U_190507_320.JPG: The Master of Fear
SPY6U_190507_321.JPG: The Eyes and Ears of Oppression
SPY6U_190507_323.JPG: By Women, For Women
A spy in a classic trench coat might easily conceal a camera. But what about a female agent in a skimpy outfit?
Four female Stasi employees devised a solution: an ingenious bra, code-named "Meadow." Designed to be worn under a summer dress, its built-in sub-miniature camera -- and a shutter controlled by a remote release held in the pocket -- let female agents snap surveillance photos easily and inconspicuously.
SPY6U_190507_326.JPG: Secret Snapshots
SPY6U_190507_332.JPG: The KGB-designed document copy camera is small enough to hide inside a handkerchief. Just don't sneeze into it!
SPY6U_190507_339.JPG: The Man Without a Face
SPY6U_190507_342.JPG: Destroy the Evidence!
SPY6U_190507_361.JPG: The Antlers are Listening
SPY6U_190507_372.JPG: The Nuclear Beer Hall
SPY6U_190507_375.JPG: A Secret Cache
SPY6U_190507_379.JPG: Markus Wolf uniform
SPY6U_190507_391.JPG: Der Hund
SPY6U_190507_392.JPG: Trabant Toy Cars
Can't wait 15 years to buy a car? Get your Trabant here -- smaller, but just as cramped! Today, these toy Trabis are mementos of a bygone era.
SPY6U_190507_399.JPG: Crossing the Border
SPY6U_190507_406.JPG: The Spy Next Door
SPY6U_190507_408.JPG: The Russian 10
SPY6U_190507_409.JPG: Red-Blooded "Americans"
SPY6U_190507_411.JPG: Mastering The Craft (Mostly)
SPY6U_190507_416.JPG: Spying in the Marketplace
SPY6U_190507_422.JPG: Caught!
SPY6U_190507_429.JPG: Patience Pays Off
SPY6U_190507_433.JPG: The "Russian Mata Hari"
SPY6U_190507_435.JPG: After Chapman's arrest a US company created action-figure dolls of her, to capitalize on the notoriety she garnered as the "sexy spy girl."
SPY6U_190507_438.JPG: Into the Lion's Mouth!
SPY6U_190507_444.JPG: The Merchants of Venice
SPY6U_190507_446.JPG: Keeping Its Secrets Secret
SPY6U_190507_448.JPG: Minding Your Neighbor's Business
SPY6U_190507_451.JPG: Stealing Porcelain: Vases, Glazes, and Forbidden Gazes
SPY6U_190507_454.JPG: Stealing Tea: The Leaf Thief
SPY6U_190507_457.JPG: Made in China
SPY6U_190507_460.JPG: Stealing Silk: The Worm Turns
SPY6U_190507_467.JPG: The Chinese Corn Caper
SPY6U_190507_469.JPG: What Was the FBI Looking For?
SPY6U_190507_473.JPG: The Secret of Mexican Red
SPY6U_190507_476.JPG: Color Wars
SPY6U_190507_479.JPG: The Bengal Blues
SPY6U_190507_485.JPG: The Research Rip-Off?
SPY6U_190507_487.JPG: Our DNA is MIA!
SPY6U_190507_489.JPG: Now You Know
The World Will Never Look the Same
You've pulled back the curtain, revealing extraordinary events and remarkable people often hidden in plain sight.
In this realm of secrets and shadows, where deceptions are broadcast and truth concealed, only one thing is certain: spying has shaped, and continues to shape, the world we live in.
SPY6U_190507_490.JPG: With Friends Like These...
SPY6U_190507_499.JPG: Trust No One
SPY6U_190520_014.JPG: June 1919
Fear Unsettles America
SPY6U_190520_016.JPG: Terror Where We Live
SPY6U_190520_025.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We LIVE
SPY6U_190520_035.JPG: April 1995
Oklahoma City Bombing
SPY6U_190520_040.JPG: Response:
Catching McVeigh
SPY6U_190520_045.JPG: What Motivated the Bombers?
SPY6U_190520_055.JPG: Terry Nichols' hat, 1995
The Hat Makes a Statement
What were McVeigh and Nichols thinking when they planned their Oklahoma City attack? This cap speaks volumes.
The men timed their attack to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the FBI's raid on the compound of a religious cult in Waco, Texas, in 1993. They were outraged by the event, which resulted in the deaths of more than 70 people. The cap, which belonged to Terry Nichols, shows a picture of David Koresh, the cult's leader, who was killed in the raid.
SPY6U_190520_062.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We WORK
SPY6U_190520_076.JPG: Munich 1972
Death at the Olympics
SPY6U_190520_080.JPG: Other Terrorist Attacks Where We PLAY
SPY6U_190520_094.JPG: Response:
Israel Strikes Back
SPY6U_190520_098.JPG: Burned out helicopters from the botched rescue attempt by German police, which resulted in the death of all remaining Israeli hostages. The incident spurred the creation of Germany's special police tactical unit, GSG 9.
SPY6U_190520_104.JPG: Terror Thwarted
SPY6U_190520_107.JPG: Terror Thwarted
SPY6U_190520_111.JPG: Terror Thwarted
SPY6U_190520_116.JPG: Berlin Wall Segments
SPY6U_190520_131.JPG: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
SPY6U_190520_163.JPG: Dress for Success
Is that necktie watching you? Maybe. Stasi operating in East Germany hid cameras in all sorts of clothing. Stasi agents abroad often concealed film in shoes or belts.
The Stasi was the only spy agency to adapt tiny Minox cameras so that they didn't require two hands to advance the film. Hiding a camera in one of these globes, agents depressed a spring-rod and voila -- they snapped a photo and advanced the film.
SPY6U_190520_174.JPG: A Nutty Solution
Where would you hide a cipher sheet? A Soviet agent, operating in West Berlin in the 1980s, had a cunning idea: stash it in an empty walnut shell in a bowl of nuts. But the agent made one mistake.
The agent sealed the shell with glue that glowed in ultraviolet light. West German police, searching the apartment with a UV light, examined each nut. One glowed.
SPY6U_190520_187.JPG: Spycatching 101
At East Berlin's Humboldt University, future spycatchers took special courses to train as "criminalists." They learned to root out foreign spies and homegrown traitors.
On entering the Stasi, graduates received a kit like this with all the tools they'd need, from rubber globes to avoid leaving fingerprints to test tubes for storing hair and fiber samples. It was a spycatcher's dream kit!
SPY6U_190520_196.JPG: Ministry for State crest, East Germany, 1960s
SPY6U_190520_203.JPG: Into the Lion's Mouth!
SPY6U_190520_215.JPG: The Merchants of Venice
SPY6U_190520_230.JPG: Cookie COnfidential
SPY6U_190520_239.JPG: The White Stuff!
SPY6U_190520_252.JPG: Unknown... and Practically Everywhere!
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Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
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