Minox Riga, a miniature camera from Latvia. It is a spy camera used by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi German Army Intelligence Service. It will appear on the 13th’Cold War Artifacts-KGB Spy Museum Collection Exhibition’. The expected bid price is 40 million won. AFP=Yonhap News
Julian Auction, an auction company based in Beverly Hills, California, will hold a special auction on the 13th. It is an event called’Cold War Relics-KGB Spy Museum Collection’. The main auction items are the collections of the’KGB Spy Museum’ in New York. This auction is the first and most comprehensive event to show relics of a Cold War spy. Among the auction items of over 400 items include micro-cameras, counter-intelligence detectors, Morse code machines, aircraft radars, recorders, and classified government documents.
Julian Auction’Cold War Relics’ Auction
Suicide teeth from Soviet KGB spies are on display prior to auction. It is designed to allow a captured spy to commit suicide to avoid torture and information leakage. If you bite hard, your teeth will break and you can drink the poison inside. AFP=Yonhap News
Some of the auction items feel old when viewed from the present perspective. However, the miniature’Minox Liga’ camera used by Hitler’s Army Intelligence Agency is surprisingly small and beautiful even now. The KGB Spy’s suicide tooth catches the eye. When arrested, to avoid torture and information leakage, it is designed to break when biting hard to drink poison, which feels eerie. This tooth, a relic of the Cold War era, is expected to be sold at 10 million won.
A compact camera from KGB Spy. It looks like a pack of cigarettes, but inside is a small camera. AFP=Yonhap News
German mini phone P55 small steel wire recorder (right) and a watch with a hidden microphone. AFP=Yonhap News
There is an eavesdropping device hidden in the ashtray. AFP=Yonhap News
A telephone wiretapping device developed by Germany during World War II. It is rare as a wiretapping device in the Nazi era. The expected bid price is $3,000. AFP=Yonhap News
Cigarette pack with hidden small digital camera. Estimated price is 1000 dollars. AFP=Yonhap News
A belt used by the Soviet Army during World War II. AFP=Yonhap News
A declaration signed by Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is also available at auction. AFP=Yonhap News
Soviet-made Vladimir Lenin’s head. It was produced between 1917 and 1924. The expected bid price is $1500. AFP=Yonhap News
Reporter Choi Jeong-dong