From the Spy Museum collection vault, historian and collector, Keith Melton shares the history
East Germany’s iconic Trabant use inside Berlin, a city where an authoritarian state controlled the economy, most property, the media, all travel, and nearly every aspect of people’s social and cultural lives—from the clothes they wore to the sports teams they supported.
How do you take nighttime photos discreetly, without the target seeing your camera’s flash?
The Stasi embedded this Trabant door with an array of infrared flash units, then hid them behind a material that let infrared light pass through. That let them conduct surveillance at night, or on a dark street, simply driving past and taking flash photos unseen…without alerting the target..
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