The Escape Pipe

 

(PfP) ... Thanks to spy and secret agent novelists like the great Ian Fleming, everyday objects with secret functions are part and parcel of spy lore. Whether it’s fountain pen guns, button cameras, dagger shoes, garrot watches–or even Maxwell Smart’s outrageous shoe phone–gadgets that masquerade as something else have been around since before the cane-sword.
Believe it or not, secretly purposed smoking pipes were manufactured during World War II–and they were no Deus-ex-machina figment of some author’s imagination that was intended to solve a thorny plot problem, either. They really existed. Continued