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Tiny camera that fits a cigarette lighter stuns readers
A prewar Riga made spy camera about three inches long and one inch wide, lighter in shape, with fifty exposures and ultra fast one thousandth of a second shutter. It was used for close work including document copying and espionage in films, later manufactured in Latvia and then Germany, then shipped to North America after World War II.
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Audrey Hepburn
Rome
Gregory Peck
R. J. Minney
Ray Milland
Riga
Latvia
Russia
Germany
Poland
Hitler
Wetzlar
U.S
Canada
United States