Poison embedded in the tips of umbrellas … confidential notes smuggled into the country in the heels of shoes … cameras embedded in bras … The world of the spy is endlessly fascinating. And nowhere is it more intriguing than at Berlin’s Espionage Museum, a treasure of a place exploring spying through the ages, from ancient Egypt to Judas, from Britain’s Duke of Wellington paying a cobbler to inform on the number of Napoleonic troops passing through to the Enigma machine, from Mata Hari to drones with cameras.
Where better to learn this all, too, than in a former East German stronghold, terrorised by the Stasi? Here you can dodge a laser field, Oceans Twelve-style, test yourself on a lie detector and try to solve spy puzzles (I was absolutely hopeless!) Here’s Jimmy outside, looking suitably suspicious.
