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Cold war CIA spies were well-versed in many forms of cryptology, or the study of creating and solving codes. Secret codes were crucial to help pass on and protect sensitive information. Spies might use anything from a simple caesar shift code, to more sophisticated codes, or ciphers, involving advanced algorithms and keys to unlock the codes. Spies needed to get creative with their codes, and might resort to using sign language, morse code, Navaho or other obscure languages, picture codes, or even math-based codes. And sometimes…they might pass along secret messages using their shoelaces.
Link to the Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
https://archive.org/details/cia-manual-trickery-deception-2009_201804/page/n145/mode/2up
Secret camera watch
Insectothopter
Cold War KGB F-21 pocket camera
1960s USSR KGB spy shoe with heel transmitter
1960’s CIA rectal tool kit (ouch!!)
Lipstick Gun (“Kiss of Death”)
.38 single shot glove pistol
Bulgarian Umbrella
Create your own Caesar Cipher (shift) secret message: https://cryptii.com/pipes/caesar-cipher
Potential shoelace patterns to send secret messages, as shown in the Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
Music Credits:
- All music from the YouTube Audio Library and the Immortal Soles Podcast
