![]() spying agency, Office of Strategic Services, after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, the downing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 and the Sept. The exhibition, which runs through March 2013, traces the world of international intrigue from the start of World War II, to the establishment of the first U.S. ![]() "I have devoted most of my life to tracking down obscure bits of spy gear around the world," he said. Melton, the author of several books on espionage including "Ultimate Spy," has spent decades gathering unusual spying gadgets from Germany, Russia, Mexico, Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the Czech Republic that explain what espionage is. "James Bond wouldn't last four minutes in the real world." The sad thing is information and communication don't sell movies," Melton said. The real world is about information and communication. "Pop culture is about two things - assassination and seduction. cities, offers a glimpse into a part of history and a secret world peopled with real-life agents, who Melton says are often completely misdefined by Hollywood and are nothing like James Bond. The interactive exhibit, which will travel to 10 U.S. Keith Melton, an author, intelligence historian and expert on spy technology who contributed items from his own collection. It is kind of an unparalleled cooperation and collaboration with the CIA and FBI," said H. "This is the first and only time these items will ever travel. They range from a World War II-era collapsible motorbike that could be dropped by parachute and deployed in 10 seconds and a German ENIGMA machine to create secret messages to a camel saddle used by one of the first CIA agents in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks to bugging devices, microdots and surveillance equipment. "Spy, the Secret World of Espionage," which opens at the Discovery Times Square on Friday, includes hundreds of artifacts, some from the vaults of the CIA and FBI and the National Reconnaissance Office. NEW YORK - The mysterious cloak-and-dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heroes and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. ![]()
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