What is the spy's information post?

After the spy gets the information, how to pass it on? In this section, let's learn about the stories of "dead mailbox" and "cell phone coincidence".

The necromancer mailbox is a storage device for spies to send messages, receive instructions, receive rewards and small spy tools. There are usually fixed dead mailboxes, mobile dead mailboxes and mobile dead mailboxes.

Fixed dead mailbox is the selected unattended handover point. This assembly point is strictly confidential, and almost all of them are places that no one cares about, ensuring that they will not be exposed or leaked. Therefore, choosing a dead mailbox is a complicated and responsible job. First, its standard is not to be discovered as much as possible; Second, its location must be easy to be described by people who have been getting information from contacts; Third, the place to set up the death mailbox must be a place where spies can go at any time for some reason. As we can see in movies, fixed dead mailboxes are generally located in fences, parks, cafes, bars, under seats in theaters, in gaps in tombstones, and in toilet tanks. These places are often overlooked by ordinary people.

The Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff of the Soviet Union (GRU) set up a "death mailbox" in a tree hole in a park in the center of the American capital. Usually during lunch break, spies lurking in the confidential departments of the United States will drop a sealed mail bag containing confidential documents of the United States into the hole. A few minutes later, a Soviet "diplomat" will pick up the small bag and immediately rush back to the car parked near the US Capitol to make copies. Within 20 minutes, send the document back to the tree hole, let the spy get it back, and then put it back on the desk of the US secret service intact. The Soviet Union has several important "dead mailboxes" in the United States. For example, in a small crack in the concrete wall from new york 165 Street to 167 Street, there is a miniature plastic dead mailbox under a street lamp in Trenburg Park; A magnetic "dead mailbox" was specially installed under an iron mailbox between 74th Street and 79th Street in the west of Central Park.

In order to ensure that it is not easy to be found or cleaned, dead mailboxes often use magnetic storage devices with great attraction. As long as the transmitter is gently attached to the dead mailbox with iron, it will be firmly absorbed. There was a colonel officer in the Intelligence Bureau of the Soviet General Staff who was bought by the West as a spy. He often uses this magnetic memory device to put information behind a row of radiators at the entrance of a building in Moscow, so that a British spy living in this building can "steal" this information every day.

But "dead mailbox" need not be so confidential, and sometimes it can be handled flexibly. During World War II, because many owners of houses were afraid of fighting and left their homes, many spies used these uninhabited houses to put a mailbox outside the door, making it a "legal" information storage device. In the 1960s, Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Egyptian intelligence agencies often used residential mailboxes that were closed all the year round to transmit information. This may be the so-called "often the most dangerous place is the safest".

A portable dead mailbox is a container that can be discarded. Such as empty cans, empty wine bottles, empty cigarette cases or empty cartons. It is left in a place where ordinary people can see it in advance and will not arouse any interest of others. However, this container should be easy for spies to identify and take away quickly. Some spies are particularly interested in this portable death mailbox, thinking that it is more flexible and safer than the fixed death mailbox. If some special containers are prepared in advance, the reliability and confidentiality will be stronger. For example: hollowed wood chips, stones, bricks, pottery, cement bricks, plastics or gypsum, etc. KGB spies often find that the portable dead mailbox given to them is often a mass of putty. This putty looks very dry and hard, and has been rolled in the dirty ash, but when it is broken, it hides action instructions and activity funds.

Movable dead mailboxes are often hidden in buses, ships, planes, trains or subways. Keith Thorpert is a Swiss-born chemist, but he was hired as the number one spy in Belgium. He especially likes to send messages by mobile dead mailbox. Thorpert often hides the documents of the secret agreement between Britain and France and microfilms of many industrial technical secrets in a toothpaste bottle, then puts this toothpaste in a big sponge for bathing, boards a night express train bound for a certain place, hides the sponge behind the grille of the first-class car bathroom, then marks it with crayons on the toilet paper vending machine, throws a piece of "Calari" chocolate candy paper into the wastebasket, and immediately gets off and returns to Brussels. When the train arrives at its destination, the receiver only needs to see the mark on the toilet paper vending machine and the chocolate wrapping paper in the wastepaper basket, and know that the moving dead mailbox is being activated. So I took the sponge from the bathroom and sent it directly to the intelligence headquarters.

1973 10 A spy lurking in a military facility in New England, USA, put the stolen military secret information in the toilet of a Boston Airlines flight, which is also a movable dead mailbox. When he wanted to land on the plane and stop to refuel, he slipped off the plane and asked the spy appointed at the flight terminal to get the information. But somehow, this toilet paper box was knocked over by a naughty child. There are nine pages of confidential documents scattered on the floor, which were picked up by a waiter who likes to read spy stories. So the security personnel on board immediately arrested the spy. Because hijackings often happened later, the method of moving dead mailboxes by plane was not used much.

Generally speaking, spies are required to use more than six dead mailboxes. In the 1960s, there was a spy school called "Administrative School" in a certain country. A compulsory course in school is how to design and prepare six secret information death mailboxes. After many practical exams, you can pass "graduation". Of course, what kind of dead mailbox to use must be approved in advance, and it is not allowed to use it at will or in turn. After putting the information into the death mailbox, the spy should immediately go to the agreed building and mark it with chalk or thumbtack, indicating that the death mailbox has been activated. After a few hours or a day, he will go to another designated place to look for the mark left by the receiver. If he finds this mark, it means that the information in the dead mailbox has been completely taken away. These objects, which can be seen every day but are often "invisible" and unobtrusive, are most likely to be used as dead mailboxes by spies.

The function of traffic overlap and dead mailbox is the same, but the important difference lies in its liquidity, or uncertainty.

Kites were often used to convey information in the espionage activities in ancient China. The spy rolled the information into thin strips like matchsticks, stuffed them into holes in the bamboo frame on the kite, and then put the kite in the sky. After all the threads were released, he cut them with a knife. In this way, the spy standing downwind in the distance ran to look for the broken kite and took out the information from the hole in the bamboo frame. The scroll painted with ancient banners in China is also a wonderful secret transmission cassette. The method of using banners to draw scrolls to transmit information is even used by foreign senior spies.

The British Army Intelligence Agency once cracked a major espionage case, and anti-espionage officials found that many secrets of a spy were hidden in a scroll of Chinese painting. The counterintelligence official reported to the procuratorate: "Top secret information and a lot of money are hidden in a scroll of Chinese painting hanging on the bedside wall. If you carefully trace between the lines at the end of the scroll with a needle, you will find a tiny eye of the needle. At this time, just insert the needle into the eye of the needle and press it down, and a small handle will be exposed. Then you can unscrew the end of the shaft. At this time, you can see that the inside of the shaft is hollow, which is a cassette used to hide confidential parts. " Because this secret transmission cassette is large and attractive, the spy technology department made a hollow coin. Using this hollow coin, even if it is exchanged in a public square, it will not attract the attention of counterintelligence personnel. It is said that the invention of this kind of hollow money was inspired by reading victor hugo's novel Les Miserables. Hugo wrote in the book: When the master Jean Wall Jean was arrested and imprisoned, he escaped from prison by hiding a hollow coin with a small document in it.

In the early morning of February 1962, there was a striking white line in the middle of the "Unity Bridge" connecting West Berlin and Potsdam in the east. A Soviet spy Abel and an American U-2 reconnaissance pilot exchanged here. Abel is a senior Soviet spy and the head of KGB spy network in North and Central America. Western anti-espionage agencies call him "the man with a thousand faces". He engaged in espionage in new york, USA under the guise of a photographer. He used all kinds of special hollow daily necessities to transmit stolen information. Once, he lost a hollow silver coin that sent a secret document to a spy. I don't know if I really lost it or accidentally took it as a real silver coin. This silver coin was found by a newsboy named Percy. Percy accidentally dropped the silver coin down the stairs when she went downstairs. When he bent down to pick up the silver coin, he found that the Jefferson head silver coin cast in 1948 had been split in half and there was a small piece of microfilm inside. The R-shaped part of the silver coin has a small pinhole. As long as you poke it with a fine needle and separate the upper and lower halves of the silver coin, you can hide the secret part. The newsboy Percy immediately sent the silver coin to the police station. The cryptographer of the FBI tried his best to decipher the contents of this "heavenly book". Abel was not caught until another Soviet spy defected to the west. Since Bowles was shot down and captured while flying a U-2 spy plane to violate Soviet airspace, the spy headquarters of the two countries exchanged the two spies through consultation.

Abel also often used hollow screws to hide the secret part in the United States and threw it under the stone that fixed the lamppost. Sometimes, the staples of thick magazines such as American Family or More Beautiful Family and Garden are removed, and thin microfilms are inserted, and then pasted on the magazines for binding. Then, the magazine was sent to the Paris post office as "mail to be received".

In the process of transmitting information, spies use various information storage devices. Scotland yard once cracked a major espionage case. The police found a flat metal bottle in the bedroom of a Soviet spy. This wine bottle has a hidden interlayer on each side. In the dresser drawer, we found a hollow battery that can unscrew the negative bottom cover and lipstick with a cassette. The police also found a sandwich Long Sen desk lighter. The miniature password book in the lighter is coated with potassium permanganate, which will burn immediately when it encounters a little heat. Mossad in Israel often uses a special light-tight paper bag, and it is safe to put the film in it. But once in danger, as long as you tear it gently, the film in the bag will be exposed, so there is no evidence to arrest him. British counterintelligence officers also found a belt in the closet of another Soviet spy apartment. There is a secret interlayer in the middle of this belt for storing confidential documents. Sometimes even hollow high-grade chocolate and aviation toothpaste made of special materials are used as information storage.

On the night of1974,65438+10, 15, a gray Volga car with the license plate number "Shi 0 1-0044" rushed out of the Soviet embassy in China and sped away to the northeast suburb. The car stopped at a Xibahe bridge in the suburbs, and five Soviets got off and got in touch with two hidden agents. Two agents handed a white mask to the Soviets. At this moment, China public security personnel suddenly appeared and arrested the gang. After inspection, the public security organs found that this white mask is a special "information storage device". There is a small interlayer in the mask, and there is a small plastic sealed bag, which contains secret information and a secret writing tool in the shape of a pin. Two agents were arrested according to law, and five Soviets were declared as "persona non grata" and deported. Egyptian intelligence agencies once sent a beautiful young girl to Tel Aviv, Israel for information handover. The bra she wears is a special "information transmitter", which has been used to transmit the information of various Israeli main weapons-"Eagle" air defense missiles.

Because the transmitted information is easy to be found, someone invented a kind of "handshake glue", which was coated on microfilm, first adhered to the palm of the right hand, and then shook hands with the transmitted object in social activities such as cocktail parties and dances, and then adhered the microfilm to the palm of the other hand. Sometimes spies put microfilm on their lips first, which looks like a small mole. When kissing a lady's hand, they send a message to her. In social occasions, microfilms are often stuck on a bright orchid in full bloom and given to ladies in public. What's more, in order to get "alive", a "human box" for stowaways was specially designed and manufactured.

1964, at Fiuzino airport in Rome, Italy, when the customs guard was checking the manifest of a white suitcase marked "diplomatic mail", he suddenly heard a groan in the box. The customs guard asked the two Egyptian diplomats who brought the box to the airport what was in it. A diplomat replied, "There are only some musical instruments in this box. I'm afraid the sound just made was the sound of an accordion. " At this time, another diplomat pushed open the customs guard, jumped in the car and drove away with the box. The guard immediately honked his horn to catch up and stopped the car. The guard pried open the box and found that it was a drugged man with his mouth gagged and his body tied by a belt. It turned out that this man was a double agent serving the Mossad in Israel and the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, and Egyptian intelligence personnel were going to smuggle him to Egypt for trial. Because the plane was delayed for two hours, the anesthetic on the double agent began to fail, exposing the truth.

In recent years, the secret transmission of information has developed into a microform technology. This technology can reduce a roll of film to tiny dots with a diameter of only 1 mm, and in this way, it can be disguised and hidden in punctuation marks of ordinary private messages. Like a page of a 32-page book, it can be reduced to the size of a dot on the English letter "I"1One day in April, 974, the Federal German Radio broadcasted a spy news that shocked the West: Guillaume, the personal political assistant of the Federal German Chancellor Brandt, was arrested by the anti-espionage agency and charged with being a KGB spy for a long time. Brandt also had to resign because of this scandal. The police found a complete set of film microscope equipment in Guillaume's home. He often uses this equipment to reduce the document with an area of 2 1 cm× 29 cm into micro-dots, and then stick it on the back of stamps and send it to East Berlin by ordinary mail. Generally, after receiving the microfilm, the part with microscopic spots should be carefully cut off, put into a special solution, then taken out and baked under an infrared lamp until the microscopic spots are exposed. At this time, just like a surgeon, he carefully removed the "micro-spots" with a fine needle, absorbed the water with blotting paper, and then put it under a "film microscope reader" to enlarge the reading.

With the development of space technology, Samos, the first spy satellite launched by the United States, is equipped with a high-tech information storage called automatic film ejection cassette. It is made of pure gold. This is to protect the film in the box from all kinds of radiation at high altitude. When spy satellites took a large number of secret photos and flew to a specific area in the Pacific Ocean, giant planes C- 1 19 flew there in batches, pulled up nylon nets between planes and accepted the "film cassette" automatically ejected by Samos. When the falling film cassette reaches the height of 6096 meters, it will automatically open the parachute and then slowly fall into it. In case it falls into the sea without accurately falling into the nylon net, the waterproof film cassette will float on the water surface, continuously send out radio signals with a predetermined frequency, and emit a special chemical agent, so that a large area of seawater around the film cassette appears dazzling golden yellow. This makes it easy to find the search plane or water speedboat and get it back in time. If you still can't find it, at a certain time, the automatic timing device installed in the film cassette will detonate.

All kinds of instruments and technologies are needed to transmit information, but once the crisis comes, the destruction of information is also very important. Recently, Britain has developed a "new top secret information shredder". The machine is characterized by small size, light weight, fast crushing speed and good crushing effect. The pieces of paper crushed by it are only110 crushed by ordinary shredders, and the film is even more broken when put in, so it doesn't need to be burned at all. In addition, the vacuum system in the machine can eliminate dust and automatically collect and compact waste paper scraps, and inject glue to form lumps, so that the contents of top secret documents disappear.

There is also a "password-opened explosive magazine". This is an "information storage" locked by a password, just like a small safe. If you don't know the password, you can't open it and take out the information inside. If you pry it open with a tool, it will trigger the explosives in the interlayer, and the "storage" and information inside will be blown to pieces in an instant. A few years ago, the Soviet KGB often sent spies to use an "automatic dialing insurance information storage device". This is a plastic box covered with cloth. After the film is put in and locked, rotate the locked dial 180 degrees. After the turntable is rotated, it must be rotated to a fixed safe position when it is opened, so as to safely open the box cover and take out the film. If you can't turn the dial to a safe position, try to open the box, and the film in the box will burn out automatically at once. Even if the lid is opened, only a pile of ashes will remain.