“Modern spy tools are faster, smaller, more accurate and more easily concealed,” says Peter Earnest, a retired senior CIA official and the executive director of the International Spy Museum.

But largely, spy films and TV shows have done away with goofy gadgets that are just on the cusp of reality. Increasingly it seems the most powerful tools in a spy’s arsenal are the ones they can ...

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Thanks to spy films and TV shows, the CIA has been famous for using nifty gadgets that may have inspired Angus MacGyver. Typical Hollywood exaggerations aside, the agency does have dedicated ...

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British authorities uncovered an extensive cache of surveillance tools inside a seaside guesthouse in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, that served as the base for a Russian spy cell. Also read ...

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A Russian spy was living in a "typical seaside hotel" on the English coast crammed full of electronic surveillance equipment, a court has heard. Orlin Roussev boasted to his controller that he was ...

The spy was living in a guesthouse on the coast of Great Yarmouth which he used to store a large number of gadgets to be used for kidnapping and surveillance missions across Europe. Orlin Roussev, 46, ...

The alleged spy operation – led by Roussev, a Kremlin agent, from his unlikely base in the converted hotel – had gathered more than 3,000 items of equipment by the time police arrested them in ...