Top Spy Gadgets Of The 60s And 70s - In Pictures

Spy shoe with a heel transmitter

Everybody knows that manners make the man. But shoes too! Look at this stylish shoe, created by the KGB. It has a transmitter for recording and monitoring conversations. That boot was used by the State Security Department of the Socialist Republic of Romania from the 1960s to the 1970s to monitor American diplomats. Basically, diplomats ordered shoes from abroad. But special agents intercepted parcelsand built a "bug" into the heel. The search for bugs in the offices of diplomats didn’t yield results because the transmitter was on the diplomat himself. Witty!