A lipstick pistol, a button-hole camera, a lethal umbrella and an authentic waterboarding table.

The espionage world's heroic, ingenious and sordid sides are all on show in Washington's all-new, much-expanded International Spy Museum.

It offers an inside look into the world of spying and intelligence techniques, boasting items like the ice axe used to assassinate Russian opposition leader Leon Trotsky and a waterboarding torture kit and table.

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