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From Playing Cards to Poop: The Oddest Cold War Surveillance Tools (14 Photos)
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Lipstick Pistol
Meet the lipstick pistol, a 4.5 mm, single-shot weapon used by KGB operatives during the Cold War. Small enough to slip past even strict border checks, it fired when the barrel was pressed against a target. Disguised as an ordinary tube of lipstick, it delivered what operatives grimly referred to as the “kiss of death.”