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KGB secrets

SPYSCAPE has covertly acquired dozens of very rare Cold War spy gadgets from the KGB Museum - including a gold-plated Soviet-era spy ring concealing a miniature camera. Join us as we lift the Iron Curtain on some ingenious inventions conjured up by Moscow’s equivalent to ‘Q’.

KGB SPY TOOLS

Irish spies are smiling

Ireland’s lush, lyrical landscape isn’t usually associated with Kremlin spies, yet in a 1983 drama worthy of a Hollywood thriller Dublin expelled a KGB ring suspected of spying on US submarines. Britain feared the worst - an Irish ‘Cuba’ on its doorstep. The Cold War may be long gone, but the fear never really left.

DUBLIN'S COLD WAR

Secret mapping

Google wasn’t the first to pry into far-flung corners of the globe. Long before GPS and online cartography, the KGB secretly mapped the globe, plotting its surface into 1,100 segments. The agency’s city maps were so precise that Moscow could see the Pentagon’s outline and details about the streets and transit stops surrounding it more than seven years ago!

The billion dollar spy

Adolf Tolkachev was one of the CIA's most prolific KGB assets, an engineer who handed over precious Russian military secrets. David Rolph, his CIA handler, was tasked with keeping this priceless information flowing, but first he had to make sure the Russians weren't onto him. SPYSCAPE exposes the KGB double agent known as the ‘billion-dollar spy’.

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Ten great Cold War spy movies

From The Kremlin Letter to Bridge of Spies, the Cold War has long fired Hollywood’s imagination. If you’re longing for a thrilling night of espionage drama at home, you’ll want to check out this carefully curated list of action-packed Cold War spy movies.

COLD WAR SPIES

Did the KGB kill JFK?

Is this a clever publicity stunt to sell books or the ultimate conspiracy theory? A former CIA spymaster claims Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev told Lee Harvey Oswald to murder John F. Kennedy and that the assassin met his KGB handler in Mexico ahead of the shooting. James Woolsey, author of Operation Dragon: Inside The Kremlin’s Secret War on America, claims Oswald was later told to stand down but went ahead anyway. You decide!

RED HERRING?

DATE NIGHTS EVERY FRIDAY AT SPYSCAPE!

As well as now being open on Thursdays - SPYSCAPE is the perfect date night on Fridays! You can enjoy NYC's #1 Rated Museum & Experience for just $69 per couple every Friday! We're open 12-8pm and every ticket gets FREE access to New York's only 007 exhibit!

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