The Camera That Won the Cold War

Robert wallace pancosky needed a better way to collect his information than what he had been using. He needed a camera to take photos of the secret documents in a way that would not be obvious to one who might happen to see what he was doing. This led to the creation of what is known as the t 100 camera, the camera that could be concealed in a writing pen or cigarette lighter. Equally important was the question of how agents like benkowsky could while under near constant surveillance communicate with american or british handlers. And that required a complete rethinking of our covert com ation systems.