Minox

McCreedy would give Kozitskin reels of film.

He'd, he'd already issued him with a little Minox camera, the great spy camera, for him to take photographs of documents.

He'd issue him, give him five or six rolls of fresh film.

McCreedy would hand over the undeveloped film of what he'd ph- I mean, this is incredibly dangerous.

I mean, I can't stress how mu- you know, Kozitskin is going into the office pretending to be the consul, actually working in the KGB rezidentura.

When everyone else goes off for lunch, he stays there with his Minox camera and is photographing everything he can lay his hands on.

He doesn't even know what he's handing over.

He's just going through the files.

It's dead drop sites, dead letter boxes, brush contacts, minutely and carefully organized.

McCredie gave Kujichin a special miniature camera called a Minox, which he would take into work every day and photograph every single document that he could get his hands on, everything.

The eventual haul from the Redwood files amounted to four trunk loads of stuff, and they code named him Redwood.

Redwood because he was six foot four.

Kozichkin was a good and very well-trained officer.

McCready gave him a secret spy camera, I think called a Minox, and he began systematically to photograph every single document that he could get his hands on, which was pretty much all of them, in the KGB residentura.

He would hand over caches of undeveloped film.

He didn't even know what he was photographing half the time, nor did McCready.

But the narrative actively, aggressively ignored the physical evidence pointing to the Paines as embedded intelligence assets.

The most glaring, undeniable example of thi- this coverup involves the Minox spy camera.

Ah, the Minox camera.

This is a huge piece of the puzzle.

In the frantic hours following the assassination, Dallas Police detective Gus Rose is dispatched to search Oswald's belongings at the Paine house in Irving.

Digging through a sea bag, he finds a Minox camera, fully loaded with film.

For historical context, a Minox is a highly specialized German micro camera.

It was invented by Walter Zapp in Riga, Latvia, specifically for covert use.