KGB spy museum opens in New York City

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It was perhaps the most murderous and feared secret service in the world, its name alone sending shivers down the spines of the Soviet Union’s enemies in the West.

Now, in a development unimaginable during the Cold War, Americans can view the killer contraptions and surveillance techniques the KGB developed to use against them.

At a museum in a fashionable part of New York ingeniously evil weapons, like lipstick guns and poison-tipped umbrellas, are on display, along with a myriad of recording devices like tape recorders hidden in the soles of shoes, and cameras disguised as coat buttons.

Visitors to the new KGB Spy Museum can even have themselves strapped into a genuine Soviet-era restraining…

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