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The KGB Espionage Museum in Manhattan was a short-lived New York institution dedicated to Soviet and Russian intelligence equipment and tradecraft. Opened in 2019 by Lithuanian founders Julius Urbaitis and Agne Urbaityte, it brought to the United States for the first time a large private collection previously shown in Lithuania in a former KGB bunker. In a 4,000-square-foot space, it exhibited more than 3,900 mostly original objects, including a lipstick gun, a Fialka cipher machine, and a poison-filled suicide tooth. Its interactive exhibits and themed tours made espionage tools and practices accessible to the public before COVID-19 forced its closure in 2020.
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