Circa 1962. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minox" class="extiw" title="w:Minox">Minox</a> camera film cassettes seized in Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Penkovsky" class="extiw" title="w:Oleg Penkovsky">Oleg Penkovskiy's</a> desk in Moscow, USSR. (Russian matchbox illustrates scale). Penkovskiy provided the US and UK with valuable information about Soviet and Warsaw Pact military intentions. He was apprehended by the KGB in 1962, tried and found guilty of treason and espionage, and executed in 1963.
<p>Photo from the booklet "CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces:  The Importance of Clandestine Reporting."
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