According to a Time magazine article from 1983, the KGB was the world’s most effective information-gathering organization. It operated legal and illegal espionage residencies in target countries where a legal resident gathered intelligence while based at the Soviet Embassy or Consulate, and, if caught, was protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity. Continue reading to see some of the gadgets and tools that their spies used.

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