Spy photography during the Cold War

Wednesday 30 December 2020, 20:40 by Elja Trum | 3,883 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Today, you can take beautiful photos and videos with any smartphone without drawing attention. During the Cold War, this was much more difficult. In this video, a former CIA employee discusses the cameras used for spy photography at the time.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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