KGB Microdot Montblanc Ballpoint Pen Camera

This tiny, easy to hide microdot camera could photograph documents and produce microdots less than a millimeter in diameter on a special colloid emulsion. A microdot is a photograph so small, an entire document can be reduced to the size of a punctuation mark in a newspaper. Microdots became essential tools of the spy craft trade. These tiny images could be embedded on an envelope or postcard, or hidden inside a ring or cufflinks. Reading them required special magnifying viewers. Often these were cleverly concealed in a cigarette or a pen. This is a real spy camera. The microdot camera is hidden inside the pen. The rear part can be pulled off and reveals the spy camera with lens inside a brass tube. The pen is working as it should and writing. Literature: See H. Keith Melton, „Ultimate Spy“, p. 162ff. for similar equipment.