News Summary

• The CIA has been famous for using nifty gadgets that may have inspired Angus MacGyver.
• The agency does have dedicated technology for covert operations, and many of them are disguised as everyday things.
• Scroll through this list to see the lengths the CIA went to gather precious intel or hide weapons.
• In the early 1970s, Aleksandr Ogorodnik was a Soviet bureaucrat serving his country in Bogota, Colombia.
• He smuggled documents from the Soviet Embassy and brought them to a safehouse where CIA photographed them.