Friday, May 1, 2009

"Chineeesee spy museum. Now, you go away!"

China - A new Chinese spy museum exhibits guns disguised as lipstick, hollowed-out coins used to conceal documents and maps hidden as a deck of cards.

What you won't find there, however, are foreigners.


A sign outside the Jiangsu National Security Education Museum in a park in the eastern city of Nanjing states that
only Chinese citizens are allowed inside, a policy designed to keep the communist regime's cloak and dagger methods secret — no matter how timeworn they may be.

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We don't want such sensitive spy information to be exposed to foreigners, so they are not allowed to enter," a spokeswoman for the museum, who would only give her surname as Qian, told The Associated Press by telephone. (more)