Cold War Artifacts
Cold war artifacts during the cold war us forces in germany had a small group that legally worked in what became east germany and the soviets had small groups that legally worked in west germany.
Cold war artifacts. Swosu sayre history professor landry brewer recently helped tom ivester elk citys city manager transfer some of the citys decades old cold war civil defense supplies to the oklahoma historical society. Published november 8 2014. By news staff on friday november 13 2020 image. 10 cold war artifacts from the real life bridge of spies auction 1.
The american auction house juliens announced that it will sell a collection comprised of roughly 400 lots of cold war era artifacts including che guevaras high school report card a gun designed to look like a tube of lipstick a purse with a hidden camera and a hotel room listening device used by the kgb the soviet unions intelligence agency and secret police. While the flight suit above was never actually worn by powers this raft was likely on board. Swosu prof city manager donate cold war artifacts to state historical society. On may 1 1960 francis gary powers attempted to fly deeper into soviet airspace than any.
Estimates for the final auction prices of these items range from a few hundred dollars to 12000.