If the eyes seem to follow you, it's just an optical illusion and NOT, I repeat NOT, a spy.
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It's just a KGB officer holding a picture frame in front of his face.. isn't it?
Ahhh, reminds me of Murder By Death, which I had watched last night
That's classier than what it reminded me of. My first thought was "What in the Scooby-Doo tarnation?"
Yours is better!
I’m surprised it wasn’t this.
Trump should be on all fours in place of the horse
Elbows up
The article has a little throw away reference to one of the coolest things ever if you've never heard of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_%28listening_device%29?wprov=sfla1
You can go see it in person in the spy museum in Washington DC!
Came to share this too, as it was one of my favorite things from the museum. Their website says it's a replica though.
Ah dang. Very cool though. Crazy collection. They also had the ice pick that killed Trotsky and an ENIGMA machine… (I think maybe both of those are the real things)
We had a great time there.
I scrolled through my pics quick looking what other whacky stuff there was and the best I got is:
Satellite Drop / Ariel Recovery Film Container
Fake Nutsack Radio 😆
Lol at the nutsack
That is bugged, I guarantee it.
Did anyone scan it for bugs?
"The national security experts, they told me to scan it for bugs. The radical lunatic left really thinks that a great man like Putin would do that to me. I told them, no scanning. It's in my bedroom right now."
lol totally read that in his voice, ew
Who, all the experts they fired who wouldn't take a Project 2025 Loyalty Oath?
It's actually jus a mirror, but Trump won't notice.
Must have been a hard choice between a picture of Putin or Trump. on which trump would like better.
Welp, wrong choice! Trumpet could have seen his reflection on the glass of the cover
Since the story of The Great Seal has already been shared in the article and the comments here, I just recently read a book on the Soviet space dogs.
Strelka's puppy, Pushinka, was given to Caroline Kennedy, but only after a thoughrough exam!
Pushinka (Russian: Пушинка, lit. 'Fluffy') was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.
Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by Khrushchev to the White House. Pushinka was examined by the Central Intelligence Agency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center over fears that she might be concealing an implanted listening device. Pushinka was x-rayed, screened with a magnetometer, and inspected by sonogram. She was found to be free of subversive devices.
The White House electrician and kennel manager, Traphes Bryant, trained Pushinka with peanuts to climb up a ladder to Caroline Kennedy's playhouse and slide down the other side.
Probably gave the poor pup cancer :(
As far as I know, Belka and Strelka got to live nice lives afterwards as celebrated space pups. I'd think they'd have gotten far more radiation up in space than Pushinka would have gotten from a couple exams, so I'd think she was fine. The wiki page says at least up to 2015, her descendants were still around being good puppos.
No wonder he was so upset about the Colorado portrait.
I'm sure the wires hanging out of it are just LEDs
I view this as sort of a backhanded insult from Putin.
Like “Here you go, you conceited, poor excuse of a man. I made you a painting of YOURSELF. Now thank me.”
Wish there was a photo of this thing.
Found it!
I think it's a warning. Didn't epstein have some weird portraits that showed him behind bars?
Edit: It appears the picture vanished from the Internet, I can only find text references.