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Australian Spy Museum
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Our mission - is collection, preservation, sharing and education on the history of espionage, and evolution of modern threats.

Our vision and goal - is to establish an independent and permanent museum home for our collection and educational programs.
Here are:
- One of Powers flight suits
- A page from his prison notebook, learning Russian
- His autograph and Time Magazine cover
- Soviets propaganda "No Return for u2"
- And an original piece of wreckage from Powers U2.

I was honoured to meet his son Gary Jr who signed "Spy Pilot" for me

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February 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
So that collection includes:
- Turing's pre-WWII thesis, and now more of his papers
- Original material from Bletchley Hut 8 (U-boot decrypt)
- Operational Enigma machines, and parts of Tunny
- The costumes from "The Imitation Game"
- Very early compute items

We'll exhibit some in SYD in 2026.

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February 2, 2026 at 7:37 AM
I know some are thinking "Wait - that's not a camera / recorder / spy gadget!" No - no it's not. But a credible museum needs an INcredible reference library.

And y'know - Turing / Enigma - so these fit into our larger Maths/Codebreaking collection and along an evolutionary timeline.

more ...

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February 2, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Lots of cool zine style inspo there, pretty happy to appear alongside screenprint, scraper board, hand drawn etc
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Twenty years ago I ran a promotion in Australia that took our biz partners up in BAC Strikemasters - two seat jet fighter bombers - to experience some G-forces and simulated dogfighting. That was for a computer networking company not gaming but I think the kind of thing gamers would like
January 23, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Yeah that’s a total vibe killer
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 AM
T68D in action - awesome bzzzt-clackety-clack analog retro goodness.

youtu.be/Xp7g2okPZIw?...
TTY Siemens T68D receiving i-telex message
YouTube video by DF2AR
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January 19, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Reading history served you well
January 11, 2026 at 3:35 AM
I don’t think people understand what this really means
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Thanks
December 21, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Can you please share the document the above post was taken from, these are all very interesting data points.
December 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
There’s a global audience for this as the US giving up soft power creates power vacuums & instability in other regions - we’re watching with keen interest. Set a fair price for digital access maybe $10 a month/$100 annual?, we appreciate interview recordings we can watch in our timezone.
December 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Second - a stunning new find from Germany - an allied strip cipher of a type I've not seen before, complete with 6x pages of instructions.

It uses double transposition and is marked "This is a Top Secret Document", likewise the instructions say to destroy them after memorising the method.
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Nice little Ricoh Half - you might be interested to know they were used as concealed cameras by Stasi & other intelligence agencies. Cheap, reliable, light and spring powered so a good choice to hide in a bag etc

There’s also a whole series of them with patterned facades - super 60’s retro styling
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Yes to the pod kitty - here’s Spookcat and The Void - they run QA sniff tests on our inbound shipments and love buzz / click / blinkenlights action
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Point here being - in the age of relays and other electromechanical gear a Chinese cipher machine is a bridge too far - look at the incredible effort just to build a Chinese typewriter.

But OMG what a thing of beauty this Missing Link object is … amazing
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM