April 1, 2024
Custom Praktica Camera 35 mm motor drive - Vintage Spy Stasi - Extremely rare
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Praktica SLR 35 mm film custom spy camera used by the infamous Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS ), commonly known as the Stasi. The Stasi was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic or GDR , commonly known as East Germany . It was commonly acknowledged as one of the most effective and repressive intelligence and secret police agencies in the world, lead by the infamous KGB-trained Minister for State Security, Army General Erich Mielke . The Stasi was mostly occupied with spying on its own citizens, but had a foreign intelligence department, the HVA, with over 6.000 employees. This camera consists of the 1. Camera, metal flip-up cover over the viewfinder, 2. lens, likely Zeiss Jena 3. film magazine for up to 300 photos, 4. motor drive (with counter). Assembly can be remotely triggered by wire-trigger or by electronic trigger that plugs into one of the plugs on the back (see the last photo, which is an old stock photo and does show a slightly different assembly). Compartment for two batteries. The assembly was used for surveillance in hotel rooms and at the German/German border (wall), where variations of these cameras were embedded into structures, to be remotely triggered. Tiny holes were drilled in apartment and hotel room walls through which Stasi agents took
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