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Chapter 2. Equipment caches. Spy things

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In this chapter, we will talk about how to equip a reliable hiding place at minimal cost. As already noted, the construction of a cache is a very responsible matter, the implementation of which is better not to entrust to anyone, but to do everything yourself.

Most residential buildings and apartments have fixed or semi-permanent devices and fixtures that can serve as hiding places. Take a look at the fence around your country house or cottage. What is it attached to: on wooden poles or on metal pipes? If the posts are wooden, you will have to spend some effort to drill them out, but metal pipes are ready-made caches, you just need to remove the top cap.

Drainpipes can also serve as ready-made caches. It is enough to tie a narrow object to a rope and lower it into the pipe, securing the rope from above. The only difficulty is the design of the pipe itself. The item must not be afraid of water or have waterproof packaging.

Refrigerators and freezers have easily removable inner linings. They can be unscrewed and small items hidden in the insulation.

The gas and electric stoves in the kitchen also have unoccupied space and sang to sleep in, though it's not obvious at first glance. Of course, you should not hide anything in the oven, except perhaps an object that does not deteriorate at all from the heat. If you have a modern model stove with a timer and a remote control, then there is usually a space behind this remote control that is perfect as a hiding place.

The downside of storage in building structures or home equipment is that it cannot be, or at least not easily, moved around. And you may need to arrange a hiding place in an item that you can easily carry or carry with you. We will talk about such caches in the seventh chapter.

There are many different places in the house where you can easily hide items and also easily retrieve them from there, sometimes they can even be moved. Perhaps these advantages even outweigh their inherent lack of reliability.

Below we give just a few examples of possible caches. They will give you some, albeit superficial, insight into the art and science of hiding places. Everything else will depend only on your ingenuity and imagination.

However, we should not forget that no matter how smart you conceived everything and how carefully you did it, your cache will still be found if they search purposefully. We have already said how thoroughly searched by counterintelligence officers - the FSB or the FBI. If one of them gets to you, be sure that their employees will take your house to the last nail, but they will find what is hidden.

But those who search with less zeal and in a less peaceful environment (for example, burglars) can still be outwitted. Let's go through your house and look for places where you can hide something without spending a lot of work, especially skilled.

2.1. "Natural" hiding places

2.1.1. Simple caches

First of all, use "natural" hiding places. To use them, you will not need any or almost no work. You can wrap a wad of money in foil and put it in the freezer. You can glue the envelope with an adhesive tape to the bottom of the box from below. Another convenient place is the space under the bottom drawer of the wardrobe. 

Also, a hiding place can be arranged behind a removable brick wall or fireplace.

It is convenient to hide small objects in flower pots by putting them in plastic cases from under 35 mm film. Such plastic cases are waterproof, so that they can store chemicals, medicines and various fragile and sensitive items.

Many hidden places can be found in the piano, as well as sewing machines. Here you can hide different items, from small to medium sizes. For example, one of the authors of this book hid cigarettes from his parents behind the bottom of a piano as a child. The secret has not yet been opened.

2.1.2. Table lamps and candlesticks

If you have copper candlesticks, table lamps, antique clocks with a massive cast iron base, or other cast metal items, keep in mind that they are most often made hollow inside for reasons of metal conservation. Often these internal cavities are closed simply with a piece of felt glued on the bottom, or a lid secured with a screw. Carefully cut through the layer of adhesive with a razor and inspect the inner cavity. If you decide to use it, you can re-glue the felt or secure it with Velcro. In objects, the internal cavity of which is closed with a lid, it is even easier to hide. There you can store things and documents that you often use. Remember where the protagonist (Georgy Zhzhenov's character) of the Soviet feature film "The Fate of a Resident" kept the encryption - in the cavity of a table lamp.

2.1.3. Pictures

For flat objects, picture frames are good. There are several layers of cardboard, fixed with glue or nails. Between them you can hide documents, money or microfilm. It's good if the frame itself is massive, but hollow inside. You can hide small items and money in it. This is a more reliable hiding place than between a picture and a layer of cardboard. They usually go there first.

2.1.4. Antique clock

In antique clocks, especially grandfather clocks, there is almost always free space that can be used. This is a ready-made secret compartment. To get there, it is enough to sleep the back wall of the clock.

2.1.5. Bathroom curtain rods

Bathroom curtain rods are always hollow metal tubes. Some are screwed into the wall, and some are held in place by spring pressure, so they can be easily removed and disassembled.

Both of them can store small items, such as precious stones. You can shove documents and money rolled up into a tube.

2.1.6. Curtain rods

Cornices are very diverse: metal, wood, metal with wood trim. Metal cornices are hollow inside. At the ends they are closed with caps that are simply inserted into the tube and are easy to remove. Similar to a curtain rod in the bathroom, you can also hide small items and money inside the curtain rods.

2.1.7. Cache inside tubular structures

Some small items can be hidden in the tubular structures of the television antenna. The space there is limited, but if the antenna is installed on the roof, then you will cause a great inconvenience to the searcher. However, for yourself too, if you need to often climb into the cache.

2.1.8. household radio equipment

You can hold batteries in the battery compartment of a transistor receiver, or you can do something else. Some receivers also have a headphone compartment.

Stereo speaker systems (speakers) are basically empty space. You can easily open them to hide small or medium-sized items. Modern speakers are easier to open than old ones, as many of them have sings attached with Velcro. They are easy to take off and put back in place.

The handset of a conventional telephone can also serve as an excellent hiding place. As a rule, in it, except for a microphone, a dynamic head and a pair of wires, there is nothing. Opening the handset is easy. It consists of two halves fastened to each other with one or two screws, sometimes they are fastened with plastic latches. Wrap the item in cotton wool or cloth so that it does not hang around inside. However, it should not be heavy, so as not to greatly increase the weight of the tube.

A lot of free space can be found in the TV case. Before how to equip a hiding place on a TV, we recommend that you first make stamps for warranty seals. For this, you will need a little sunflower oil and epoxy resin. Oil the old filling and fill it with epoxy. After a day, remove the finished stamp from the seal hole. Now you can safely open the TV case and equip the hiding place. When you put the back cover of the TV back in place, you will restore the warranty seals using the stamp made. This will knock the searcher off the tree. Caches are best arranged in bulky domestic TVs, because thieves can steal a new imported TV along with the cache.

2.1.9. Tape cassettes

There are two main types of audio cassettes: expensive and high-quality, which are fastened with screws, and cheap - heat-sealed. Both types of cassettes have free space to hide something. The exception here is cassettes made of transparent plastic, regardless of the type. The cassettes from which the screw heads stick out beg to be dismantled. Heat-sealed cassettes, which break when trying to disassemble, are more reliable. They can be opened with a heated knife, and then sealed with cyanoacrylate glue.

2.1.10. Lighters

There are cases when lighters were converted into weapons, but you don’t need such exotics. Gasoline lighters have a removable body, which contains a cotton pad soaked in gasoline.

You can remove the gasket and put in its place, for example, gems, jewelry or other small items that will not be damaged by gasoline fumes. You can even light a cigarette from such a lighter.

Doing the same with a gas lighter is far from easy. You can, of course, saw off the base from it, and then reattach it with a heated knife, but the lighter will not work, since the gas will evaporate from it. Refillable lighters are rare these days, but with good metalworking skills, you can open the fuel tank, put in what you need, and reseal the tank so that liquefied gas remains in it. Such a lighter will work if the searcher tries to light it. For this, lighters with a metal bottle or a bottle made of opaque plastic are suitable, as is the case with audio cassettes.

2.1.11. Cameras

Cameras make excellent hiding places, but with some limitations. It is better to use the camera in this capacity when traveling than at home, as customs officers believe that if they open the camera of a tourist, they will light up the film. If a search is going on in your house, it doesn't matter if it is conducted by the police with a warrant or burglars without a warrant, both of them will open the camera without any hesitation.

There is not much free space inside the camera. One small shelter is under the fur of a single-lens reflex camera, the second is in a film cassette.

Film for 35mm cameras is available in metal or plastic cassettes. Cassettes "Kodak" are disposable, as their end caps are crimped but the shoulders. You can carefully separate the cap, cut a cavity in the film, and then crimp the edges of the cassette again.

It is easier to handle domestically produced cassettes. They have end caps of plastic cassettes secured by a threaded connection, while metal cassettes are held by spring pressure.

Should I use new film or one that has obviously already been exposed? If the film is new and loaded into the machine's transport system, you may be asked to rewind a frame or two. If the film tab does not protrude from the cassette in your camera, then your statement that the film has been shot will sound quite plausible. You can count on the fact that not a single customs officer will ask you to open the device.

On the other hand, if you are searched on a warrant, then everyone will surely check! And the prospect of ruining your tape won't scare them, unless they decide to send the "shot" film to their lab for processing in the hope that they will find some kind of crime in the pictures. Polaroid cassettes have a bit of free space, especially if you shoot several frames. . In addition, photographic plates can be removed from the cassette and reloaded without ruining the footage. If you can feel it by touch in complete darkness, you can put something in it.

Small objects can be hidden in the flash. If you unscrew a couple of screws, you will find a free space in which a roll of banknotes will fit.

You can also use a video camera as a hiding place, for example, if you put a wad of money in the video cassette compartment. If the AC adapter or battery pack is not connected to the camcorder, you cannot open the camcorder without damaging it. True, this method of storing savings is not effective in case of apartment theft, because thieves will take away the video camera along with the money.

2.2. Caches in free cavities and spaces

So many solid-looking structures in your home actually hide empty spaces. Let's explore them. We will see that in some cases the hiding place can be arranged without much effort. In other cases, you will have to try and apply imagination, labor and skills in working with carpentry tools.

2.2.1. Walls

Internal partitions in a cottage summer house and partitions between the office premises of apartments (toilet, bathroom, kitchen, pantry, etc.) are usually boards stuffed on wooden posts with a section of 5x10 cm, located at intervals of 40 to 60 cm, in depending on what load the wall carries. Electrical wiring and water pipes are laid inside. As a result, in almost every wall there are empty spaces 10 cm deep, more than 25 cm wide and 2 m high. Sometimes there is thermal insulation in the walls.

In terms of access to these spaces, there are electrical sockets and switches in almost every room. Their boxes have a plastic or metal body and a lid.

Before starting work, be sure to turn off the electricity in the main junction box. Remember this! Although many of you have suffered non-fatal electric shocks, someday happiness can change you. In all modern homes, the electrical network has a voltage of 220 V, since it is this voltage that is necessary for the operation of a TV, washing machine, washer and dryer, and other household appliances.

All switch and socket boxes have removable covers. If you remove them, you can put something inside. Unscrew the cover with a screwdriver, but make sure that its blade fits snugly into the slot. Do not leave scratches on the surface! Leaving traces is amateurishness, you can unmistakably find a cache by them. If you see that there are dents left, cover them with a layer of paint. Often, sloppy owners paint over the entire front plate of the outlet during repairs, because they are too lazy to remove it before painting, and then put it back in place.

In some cases, it is useful to paint over the screw heads - then it is more difficult to unscrew them. Keep this in mind if you are going to hide for a long time. If you need quick access to a hidden item, consider other options.

There are several ways to equip hiding places in the walls. The easiest is to hide the item in the switch or socket box itself. In this case, it is necessary to isolate all metal elements so as not to cause a short circuit and, as a result, a fire in the electrical wiring. Another way is to take out the box and arrange a shelf behind and below it.

How to fix a shelf? You can, of course, drive a couple of nails through the wall panel, but then you will need putty and paint to mask the holes. It's easier to use epoxy. Make sure the shelf fits snugly into its intended space: it should be held in place by friction until the epoxy has cured. This will not be difficult to do - a 5x10 cm shelf will fit perfectly into place. The size of items that can be hidden in this way is limited by the size of the inlet of the cache.

Another way is to make a fake socket. You don't need the whole socket box for this, just the face plate. Separate the faceplate from the rest of the contents. Cut off the screw heads and attach them to the faceplate with epoxy or superglue. You won't mount the record to the wall with these screws, since each one needs holes, which means you need a box to limit the usable space. Paint over the screw heads so no one wants to unscrew them. So you kill two birds with one stone - get quick access to the cache and confuse the searcher.

Cut a hole in the wall a little smaller than the front plate of the outlet. Build a hiding place behind it, and glue a couple of pieces of Velcro to the corners. Glue the same pieces of Velcro to the front plate to secure it in place.

You should not arrange a fake switch, this will only arouse suspicion. After all, it obviously will not work, and anyone who tries to click it will wonder why the light does not turn on. With sockets, the risk is much less, since few people who come to your house will turn on electrical appliances.

Don't forget the possibilities of junction boxes. A main box on an outside wall or a fuse box in the basement has more space than a small outlet.

Main junction boxes, especially if installed on an outside wall, usually have padlocks that can be locked with. Take advantage of this, the lock will make it difficult for the searcher

Inspect the junction box as it attaches to the wall. You will usually see several screw heads on the back of the box. Unscrew them and inspect the wall behind the box. If it's an inside wall, it's already hollow inside, and if it's an outside wall, you'll have to work a bit to take out the bricks or drill a hole. cache.

Telephone sockets can be used to hide small objects In new houses, telephone wiring is done immediately during construction, and in each apartment they make at least one outlet, which is covered with a plate. If the owner wants to put a device in this room, he removes this plate and installs an outlet If you have just moved into a new house and do not yet have a telephone set, save such a plate from the telephone outlet. It can be used to close the cache that you have. Such caches are remarkable in that they require much less labor to make than, say, in the manufacture of fake rosettes. After all, here you have a simple plate with one small hole in the center. On such a hiding place you will practically not spend either strength or nerves.

Small items and money can be hidden in the decorative cap of the chandelier. This especially makes sense if you have high ceilings in your apartment, and the search will be carried out by a person of short stature.

2.2.2. air ducts

Air conditioning, air heating and ventilation systems open up a wide range of options for you to install a hiding place in the air ducts. Duct grilles are usually attached with two screws, so they are easy to remove.

Quite large objects can be hidden from prying eyes in the air ducts. Sometimes, during a search, they shine a flashlight through the bars, so you need to hide not at the very entrance to the canal, but further away.

If you need to quickly get a stored item, such as a gas canister or a gun that you may need urgently for self-defense, do this: unscrew the screws, cut off their heads and glue them with epoxy glue to the holes. Paint over the grate so that the searcher does not want to unscrew it. Attach one side of the grate to the wall on hinges, then it can be quickly opened. Make sure that the grate fits snugly against the wall, without a gap that can give you away.

When you hide something in the air duct, use its horizontal, not vertical elbow, otherwise the object may fall and you will not reach it. When hiding light objects, such as papers, secure them to the tycoons, as the air current can press them against the grate and block ventilation.

If the horizontal elbow of the duct is short or absent at all, you can use a twine, to one end of which you can tie a hidden object, and to the other you can discreetly fasten it to the grate and sprinkle it with plaster. To remove the item, just pull the string.

If you need more space, you can build a fake vent. To do this, you just need to get the same grate as all the others, and cut a hole in the wall for it. Fasten the grate with screws or hinges. Then long objects can be pushed into the wall. Here, however, there is a danger that during the search they will want to check the air duct system in the house. Then the searcher will be surprised why there is no channel leading to this grate.

If this space is not enough for you, build a fake air duct. In many private houses, garages do not have air conditioning and air heating systems, so the air duct to the garage can be run from the main channel. This will give you more freedom of maneuver: after all, hiding something in an existing duct, it cannot be blocked, while a fake one can be stuffed at least entirely.

To equip a fake duct, you need to get exactly the same sections as the other ducts in the house. Solder them or glue them with epoxy glue. It is better to put a grate at the channel inlet. A cursory search, for example, if a burglar got into the house, your deceit will not be revealed, but if they look more closely, they may wonder why the air duct goes into a room where there is no outlet.

If you are going to store heavy items in the duct, it must be routed over and across the ceiling joists. If you need to run a duct between two beams, lay it on the metal strips attached to the beams.

To cover up traces of work, shake out the dust from the vacuum cleaner onto the new air duct. Do this several times so that everything is covered with a thick layer of dust.

2.2.3. Plumbing and plumbing

In some bathrooms, there is a hole on the wall under the sink, covered with a 15-20 cm chrome disc, which is fixed with a screw in the center. This hole gives access to the sewer for cleaning it. For you, this is a ready-made cache.

If you do not have such a hole, make it yourself. Cut through the wall and close the cutout with a chrome disc. Cut off the head of the screw that will hold the disc and glue it to the hole in the center of the record with superglue or epoxy.

A floor drain is useful for those who have a basement or garage downstairs. If the drain is active, you can still hide small items in it. They need to be packed in a waterproof bag that is hung inside the sewer.

How much work are you willing to put into your stash? As we have seen, in some cases quite hard work is required. Now we will move on to more complex caches that require skill and patience.

2.3. Specially equipped caches 

2.3.1. Stash in furniture

Believe it or not, most pieces of furniture in your home contain empty spaces. In some of them, you can drill and arrange a cache. Let's start with a wooden stool or a wooden chair leg. To drill a deep hole in which you can hide small items, it is enough to have a drill and a set of drills. It is enough to drill out all four (three) legs and replace the four (three) leg tips so that they all look the same. Remember, you can not make the holes too large, otherwise the legs will lose strength. It will be very unpleasant if your guest of a respectable build sits on a chair, and it breaks under it and a roll of banknotes sticking out of a fragment of a leg appears.

Upholstered furniture is even easier to use. Open the seam of the fabric that covers the sofa or chair from below. In the soft seat, you can hide anything, from a precious gene to documents. Stretch the fabric again and fasten it as before.

In the drawers of a desk or kitchen furniture, you can arrange a false bottom. It must be made from the same material as the real one, and fastened with Velcro or plastic-framed magnetic strips, which are sold in hardware and haberdashery stores. Under the false bottom, you can hide only flat objects, documents, money, jewelry. Be sure to secure them so they don't give out or knock.

In the desk itself, you can arrange a secret compartment. Often there is an empty space between the countertop and the top drawer. There are two ways to equip a cache. Inside the table, you can build a drawer that would not interfere with the drawer, and make the table top lifting, or you can simply arrange a removable false bottom. The tabletop is fixed with magnetic or fixing locks.

2.3.2. Stash in the kitchen

Boxes and jars with food and washing powders are just asking to be hidden in them. Such a cache is easily accessible, which means that its reliability is low, but if you need to quickly hide something with a minimum of effort, it will do.

Let's start with the refrigerator. If you wrap small items in wax paper, branded packaging or fouls, they can safely lie in the freezer without arousing suspicion. However, during a search, they will be found. You can additionally insure yourself - launder these items with a layer of minced meat, and then freeze them. The one who is looking will unfold the wrapper and see only minced meat. If he stops there, you're saved. But if she has a metal detector, and what you're hiding contains metal, then you're caught.

Small items, such as jewelry, can be hidden in a layer of cooking oil at the bottom of the pot.

It is good to hide metal objects in metal cans Soak the label with water, and then cut the can across with a hacksaw Take out the contents of the can, but save if you are going to repack it in the can. Make an insert from thin metal.

What size is what you are hiding? If it's something small, such as a gem, it can be placed in the contents of the jar, which will create additional disguise. Whatever this filler is, it should not strum and should weigh about the same as the can weighed in its original form.

The insert can be soldered or glued with superglue. If you want it to hold tight, be sure to first make sure that the metal is dry and free of grease. Stick the label in place.

Cardboard boxes of groceries or laundry detergent can serve well, especially if you need to hide documents and other non-metallic items. You need to cut a hole in them from below. Do this with a cobbler's knife and cut through not the cardboard, but the glue layer. Typically, these boxes have a paper or plastic bag inside that contains the contents. It is usually glued to the inside of the box. If it's not, glue it on. This is an extra precaution in case of a search. If this box is opened from the top and the contents are poured out of it, this may be limited, but only if the object you have enclosed is not so heavy that it is noticeable that the box is not empty . Seal the box with glue again.

You can quickly hide something in the bin, especially if you pile leftover food on top. For some, this scares off psychologically, and they will not rummage. Another equally uninviting place is the cat litter box. Be careful, however, that the cat does not dig up the object you have hidden when using the box.

2.3.3. Bathroom and toilet

About what can be hidden in the sewer of a bathroom or garage, we described in section 2.2.3. If your bathroom doesn't have a drain, you're in luck. You probably don't need it, so when you build a fake drain, there will be much less danger of drowning the valuables you hide in it. After you break through the concrete, your main tool will be a drill. Having drilled a hole of the required depth, you need to insert a piece of pipe into it. Put a cap on the end of the pipe. This will be the bottom of your cache. At the upper end of the pipe, drill two holes opposite each other, for which you tie a rope handle. Select a gutter grate slightly larger than the diameter of the pipe and cement it into the floor. If you think the cache might flood, cut out the plastic cover and secure it with four or more screws around the circumference of the pipe, with an O-ring for tightness.

When the cement dries, check to see if it stands out from the rest of the floor. There are two ways to mask your work. The simplest thing is to apply a layer of dirt: the dirtier the better. The second, more accurate, is to paint the floor. Many people paint concrete floors, and hardly anyone would think that the floor was painted for camouflage.

It is very easy to install fake pipes. This is a much more secure hiding place than a cistern in a toilet. Natural places for false pipes are the kitchen, bathroom, toilet and basement. Ideally, such a pipe should pass between two opposite walls of the room. This gives the impression that each end of the pipe is recessed into the wall and passes through it, so that it is unlikely to be closely examined. Sometimes pipes are unscrewed during searches.

However, a continuous section of pipe without any joints is unlikely to lead to suspicion. To install such a pipe, you need to make holes in two walls. One hole should be quite deep. You will put one end of the pipe into it, and insert the other into a shallow hole on the opposite wall.

A metal tube for toothpaste can serve as a great hiding place. There are plastic tubes, but they are not so convenient. They will have to be soldered, because, unlike metal ones, they do not twist. Don't be discouraged that the end of the tin tube is sealed. Unfold it and cut off the edge. Put what you need into the toothpaste and bend the end of the tube again.

If you need more space in the tube, squeeze the paste into a cake decorating syringe and pop your item into the tube. Then squeeze enough paste from the syringe into the tube to fill the surrounding space, and bend the end of the tube.

If you need to hide something very quickly, toss it in the bottom of the bathroom trash can. And putting a freshly used sanitary napkin on top will provide some extra protection. Here we again resort to the help of a psychological barrier.

In general, the success of a search largely depends on the psychology of the seeker, how squeamish and delicate he is. Strange as it may seem, the well-known method of hiding things in dirty linen very often leads to a positive result. Not everyone wants to dig into it.

Another example. Most men don't know or don't want to know about feminine hygiene. This topic is usually taboo even between husband and wife. Men, employees of bodies that usually conduct searches of personal belongings or searches, are also no exception. You can take advantage of this factor. For example, you can hide paper money or small jewelry in feminine sanitary pads. Do not choose pads for this purpose every day, you cannot hide anything in them. Carefully spread the gasket along the seam on one side. Take the cotton out. Since the wool is synthetic, it does not have to be reused. If it is not planned to use the gasket for its intended purpose, you can not wrap the money in polyethylene, just take a piece of domestic-made cotton wool, wrap the money and carefully put it back into the gasket shell. The seam can be soldered with an iron or fastened with two drops of superglue. Put the gasket in the box with the others It is unlikely that anyone will be able to find your hiding place.

Larger items can also be stored in a box with sanitary bags or pads. This method was described by A. Marinina in the detective story "Sixes die first", when a hired killer (woman) hid a gun in a box with hygiene bags. And only an accident helped the police officer (her lover) to discover the hiding place.

Small items can also be hidden in a massage hairbrush or washcloth if they are large enough.

A cesspool in a dacha provides some psychological security, as does a cat box, but not everyone has a dacha and a cesspool in it. An alternative to a cesspool, although not equivalent, can be a broken toilet. If you have a cottage and there is more than one toilet in the house, disable one. Go to the toilet several times in a big way: the fecal mass will serve as a strong psychological barrier for searchers. Then drop down the item you want to hide; if necessary, weight it down so it doesn't float. Of course, the item must be in sealed packaging.

To get an item from such a cache, you need to get a bunk of rubber gloves, but they should be kept in another room so that the searcher does not associate them with the toilet in any way.

2.3.4. Sexual contraptions

As already noted, psychological factors affecting the quality of the searcher's work are very important. One of them is to divert attention, to confuse. Buy a few sexual contraptions, and the weirder they are, the better. Hide in them what you want to hide from prying eyes. As a hiding place, these devices can serve no worse than all the others. But the searcher, seeing these objects, will not be able to fully concentrate on his work.

This method of stashing is very handy if you want to take something through customs, because by pretending to be obviously embarrassed by what the customs officers will see, you will distract them. This will work both during a search on a warrant, and during a secret, without your knowledge, search of housing. Even if you are not at home, sexual devices will give police officers a reason to laugh at your intimate life, tell a couple of greasy anecdotes, thereby distracting them from work.

It is convenient to hide small jewelry in condoms. Some of them come in plastic capsules that can be opened and resealed (the two halves are held together with a strip of adhesive tape). If this is done carefully, it will not be noticeable that they were opened. Adding to this a vibrator and a few other things of the same mud, you will distract the searcher by being embarrassed and cringing when he finds them in your luggage.

Most sexual devices have cavities inside. For example, in an artificial penis there is sure to be a space where you can hide small things. Some electrified sexual devices have a battery compartment that can also be used as a hiding place.

A small stack of gay magazines will elicit a smile or, better yet, disgust. If they are erotic magazines for men with normal sexual orientation (with girls), searchers will carefully look through them, they will throw only a superficial glance at publications for homosexuals and other "abnormal" ones. If documents are hidden inside the magazines, they will most likely not be found.

Sado-masochistic devices can also be used with success. It would hardly occur to anyone that the handles of your whips or the heels of your high leather boots are hollow.

Remember, if you're about to get anything through customs wearing sexual devices, don't take these items with you to a country where they're illegal.

2.3.5. Stash in the attic

A place full of natural hiding places is an attic with fiberglass insulation.

Fiberglass insulation has a great advantage: if someone starts to fumble in it, the fiber fragments will dig into his skin. If you have sadistic tendencies, this can be used. Go to the attic and deliberately open the insulation so that its condition does not arouse suspicion. To provoke a searcher, you can also stick a few innocent objects into it. By the time he searches the attic, he will have a swollen arm from fiberglass and persistent itching.

2.3.6. Stash in garden tools

Many household and gardening tools have hollow metal or plastic handles. Some, like shovels, have wooden handles. They are easy to drill out to hide small items. Remove the shovel feather from the handle, drill out the shank, put what you want to hide in there, and put the feather on it again. For some tools, the working part is screwed onto the handle. In such tools it is most convenient to build a cache. If the working part is mounted on a pin or stud, you will have to drill a hole deeper so that when you put the object into the hiding place, the part of the hole where the pin passes will remain free. Insert the pin, screw on the working part of the tool - and the cache is ready. Instruments with a pressure seat on the handle can be difficult. These are cheap tools, they loosen quickly and can come off the handle. For reliability, fix them with glue or a nail.

2.3.7. Stash in the book

Do not hide anything in the cut out pages of the book. This stash is good only for storing the "stash" from the wife, and when searching the apartment, this will only work if the searcher does not pick up this book at all. If he takes it and runs through the pages, the cache will immediately open.

A small object, such as a piece of microfilm, can be slipped behind the spine of a hardcover book. Pre-wrap the film in polyethylene, and after inserting it, fix it with a drop of glue.

2.3.8. Cast items

Some items are especially good as stashes because they look like they can't be stashed. For example, these are chocolate bars or bars of soap. Indeed, nothing can be put in them, but any small object can be poured with melted chocolate or soapy mass and shaped accordingly.

First, take out some silicone rubber. From it, make a mold for casting a bar of chocolate or a bar of soap. Chocolate is easier to cast as only the top surface of the bar needs to be taken care of. After making the mold, fill it with melted chocolate, putting what you want to hide inside. As packaging for your briquette, you can use wrappers from Snickers or Bounty.

To cast chocolate at a minimal cost, you can buy a children's set of rubber molds. These kits are designed to make small figurines, such as animal figurines, from plaster. And you will make chocolate figurines and wrap them in multi-colored foil. Arrange them beautifully in a gift box, put a greeting card on top, and here you have another medium-security cache.

The soap bars need to look good on both sides, so you'll need to make a split mold. It's much more difficult, and you might not succeed. However, some brands of soap have visible seam lines, you can try to make a mold for such bars. In addition, if you lather your hands with this soap several times, the seam will disappear.

Re-wrapping a chocolate bar or bar of soap in paper is usually not difficult, as long as you unroll it carefully without ruining the packaging. After wrapping, apply a few drops of glue to the paper. It is worth emphasizing that a bar of soap that has already been used is less suspicious than a new one in the package. A few hairs and bits of dirt stuck in the surface of the soap will make it so unattractive that no one wants to touch it.

2.3.9. Aerosol cans and other pressurized packaging

Despite the fact that with the help of the necessary tools and devices, it is possible to open an aerosol can and reseal it, this hardly makes practical sense. For example, if you do it correctly with a can of shaving cream, but it will not be very noticeable to him that he was opened. The balloon can be opened and resealed with a makeshift press made from wire cutters or pliers. It will work, but it only makes sense if you want to hide a liquid that looks and smells like shaving cream, otherwise anyone who presses the valve will wonder why the cream does not come out of the can.

In the same way, you can open a can of beer that opens with a pull tab at the top and fill it with powder or liquid, which will pass through a small hole. The jar can be sealed with glue. But it is quite difficult to make the new content disappear but the heaviness and other sensations behind the former one. Powder, for example, but the weight is different from water, and, in addition, if someone shakes the jar, he will not hear the characteristic splash.

2.3.10. Ceramics

Ceramic objects can serve as good caches, but with one limitation: all hidden metal objects are easily detected by a metal detector. It is possible, however, to apply a metallic glaze to the ceramics, but this is only a partial protection. If you are seriously suspected, then all ceramic objects that are in doubt will be broken.

If you are a master of ceramics, you can try to make duplicate cups and saucers from a good brand name service. It is unlikely that the one who searches will begin to smash every item from a valuable-looking service, but they will have no hesitation regarding obvious homemade products.

2.3.11. Consumer electronics

Computers, radios, televisions and other electronic devices have become so ingrained in our lives that it would be strange not to use them as hiding places. Miniaturization has meant that most of them have quite a lot of "dead" space inside the case. First, remove the lid from the device that you are going to use as a hiding place, and look at what is inside.

Usually a small object will easily fit inside, wrapped so that it does not strum. Well, if the device can work at the same time, so do not occupy the battery compartment.

Very flat items, such as microfilm, can be hidden by hiding them under the label. You can try to separate the label, for example, over steam, but it's easiest to make a new one. Print the user manual or technical data on a square of paper, circle it and copy it on a photocopier - you will get a perfectly acceptable label.

You can also hide items inside individual components. Do not forget one important condition: after you finish, the device must work. There is only one exception: if you keep this device at home, you can make it look like an old and broken device. For example, in the basement or in the attic, an old TV can stand collecting dust, or you can put the receiver in an old bag under the sink.

In other cases, the device must work so as not to arouse suspicion. You can open a dry battery with a sharp knife, stick a gem in it, and seal it with superglue. After that, the battery may not work. If this happens, wear it as a spare.

Individual electronic components can be opened and sealed again. A large electrolytic capacitor usually has an aluminum casing. It can be disassembled, the contents removed (metal foil with a dielectric impregnated with an electrolyte), put in what needs to be hidden and closed again.

Resistors are usually filled with epoxy or plastic, and you should not even try to open them. It's easier to cast your own resistor.

Take a real resistor as a sample and make a mold from it. Conclusions for a false resistor, make from pieces of copper wire with a diameter of 0,5-1,5 mm. Cast the resistors themselves from epoxy resin with nylon filler.

Just don't put your own components in place of the real ones. Solder a fake resistor in parallel with any other and you'll be fine. If you do it right, it won't conduct electricity at all and won't short out the circuit. Very few searchers will go so far as to ring every piece of electronic equipment to make sure they all work as they should.

Game cartridges for game consoles like "Dendy" usually have a small plastic case with a connector to connect them to the console. Some of them are fastened with a screw located under the label The label can be peeled off with a solvent or steam, then access to the screw will open After unscrewing the screw and separating the two halves of the cartridge, put what you want to hide there without damaging the "stuffing" and taking care that nothing is inside didn't rattle Then screw the two halves back together, stick the label on, and you're done

An important warning must be made: if you are going to arrange a hiding place in a cartridge, buy several of them at once. You will certainly ruin one or two cartridges while making the hiding place properly. Get over it from the start and buy a few spare cartridges so that you have something to correct your mistakes.

2.4. Caches in specially equipped cavities

2.4.1. doors

Virtually all interior doors and many modern front doors are hollow construction. It is much easier to hide something in such doors than before. Obviously, the entrance to the cache must be done from above. It is not difficult.

Since the door is simply a "cake" of wood plywood and cardboard, it's usually enough to just take a knife, cut through the top of the door, and cut a hole in the cardboard for a hiding place. It can store money, jewelry, documents and other permitted and prohibited things.

From above you need to make a cover of wood or cardboard, painted to match the rest of the door. The lid will rest on the steps cut into your hidden compartment, and on top it should be flush with the surface of the door. The lid can be secured with magnetic strips or Velcro.

If you want to make a hiding place in a solid door, the cavity in the door will have to be drilled or gouged with a chisel. The lid is made in the same way as in a hollow door. A more spacious cache can be made in the door frame. Plus, it's much more reliable. But it is also much more difficult to do so.

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