Poison pellet umbrella and 'kiss of death' lipstick gun among KGB weapons up for sale
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mirror.co.ukA collection of almost 400 secret spy weapons from the Cold War have gone on sale as a New York museum is forced to close down due to the pandemic.
The remarkable collection - amassed over the last 30 years by a European collector - went on display as he opened the KGB Espionage Museum in 2019.
But they have been forced to close down and sell off everything due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the lot expected to sell for around £365,000.
One of the marquee lots is a KGB spy umbrella with a poison syringe which is valued at £3,700. It is a reproduction of the umbrella which is thought to have been deployed to assassinate the Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov in London in 1978.
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