Day: August 25, 2024

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@KremlinTrolls: Like clockwork:



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! PHOTOGRAPHER EDITION! Lewis Morley, the photographer who shot the iconic image of Christine Keeler also shot the 1962 album cover for the comedy troupe Beyond the Fringe. pic.twitter.com/Fv68mhpCzV



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! PHOTOGRAPHER EDITION! Both novelist Len Deighton and KGB spy John Vassall were trained as photographers by the RAF. Deighton abandoned a promising career in cooking to write books. Vassall, caught in a KGB gay honey trap, turned to treason. pic.twitter.com/NlTkFfzCBG



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! PHOTOGRAPHER EDITION! Soviet spy Glenn Michael Souther was trained as photographer by U.S. Navy and served aboard USS Nimitz. Following his defection, he became a celebrity on Soviet TV before he was found dead in garage with car engine running. pic.twitter.com/bmw0cG9Kdy



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! PHOTOGRAPHER EDITION! Ossip Garber provided forged passports for Soviet illegals in 1930s operating under cover as photographer with studio in Scribner’s building on Fifth Ave. He also photographed several Scribner authors, including Thomas Wolfe. pic.twitter.com/TvICuvLZoV



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! PHOTOGRAPHER EDITION! Czech national Ludek Zemenek became Rudolph Hermann, who posed as a freelance photographer in both the U.S. and Canada. He defected and then attempted to redfefect was unsuccessful when he was stripped of Czech citizenship.



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION! Here’s a nice picture of the KGB’s ZVOUK lipstick camera provided an active concealment. A lady could apply lipstick and take a photo simultaneously. Each tube held approximately 30 exposures



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION! Overly eccentric paranoid Noel Pemberton Billing designed spy camera called Phantom so complex watch maker Le Coultre had to manufacture it. Never went into use. Also, Compass camera for consumer market.



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@SpiesVespers: IT’S TIME FOR STRANGE SPY FACTS! CAMERA AND PHOTOGRAPH EDITION! Ernst Leitz, head of Leica cameras, smuggled hundreds of Jewish employees out of Germany during WWII. Each issued a Leica camera that could be sold if things went bad. Many ended up in NYC at 5th Ave Leica showroom.



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@KremlinTrolls: Draining the swamp: