British Spy ring and spy tech
 

I love spy tech, so this story caught my eye -

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...name_page.html

"BRITISH SPY RING SMASHED, SAY RUSSIANS

RUSSIA claims to have smashed a British spy ring and is threatening to kick four British diplomats out of the country.

Security chiefs in Moscow claim the four embassy officials used a fake rock, deposited on a city street, to store electronic eavesdropping equipment used to download information to and from palmtop computers."

A fake rock....classic. Gotta love simplicity.

I read a book about spy tech not too long ago. One I always liked was a hand held miniboat transmitter. Russians (Well, Soviets, I suppose) used to use this around Washington. They'd record a vast amount of info on a recorder that they would somehow remove. They'd take the the recorder and put it on a tiny boat that was put in the ocean, would motor out into the open sea for 5 miles, transmit the data, and then sink itself. The goal was to never allow the point of transmission to be identified and have their operation exposed that way

Gotta love that stuff.

I got a laugh as well when I saw this story this morning.

On CNN, there is a "Gallery" of photos of spy gadgets from the Spy Museum. I don't know how to link to the gallery section but there is a link on the main page next to the story.

That is awesome stuff. I'm happy to hear that Get Smart spy devices are alive and well.

Fascinations from my childhood DO exist! So cool!

Tee-hee, they're from my childhood too, thanks to Nick-at-Nite. :p