Jon C. writes:
Yesterday I heard this on CBC that CSIS runs it’s own museum that is only open to CSIS employees. Better still, they have a souvenir shop that, again is only open to spies, but you list the item you want and stuff cash in an envelope, making what I assume is a dead-drop at the gift shop, in order to buy things. It sounds kind of fun for the spies, but I’d really like a Cold War radio-pen-decoder-syringe too.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get us pictures from inside this museum.
But since that is a lot of work, the CSIS agency has put a virtual museum online with a few of the awesome spy artifacts, such as this toy truck that concealed a microdot reader and a one time pad. (The image is just of the flip-up engine that held the reader.)
Want to buy CSIS souvenirs? You’ll need security clearance [The Globe & Mail]
CIA has an employee-only museum as well.
Open to the public. I hear it’s pretty cool:
National Cryptologic Museum
http://www.nsa.gov/museum/
Not worth the time or expense:
International Spy Museum
http://www.spymuseum.org/
If I wanted to see James Bond’s car, I’d rent a DVD…