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NEOZIT 1 (Russian: НЕОЦИТ), also known by its factory designator F-27, was an electronically con­trolled minature covert surveillance camera developed in the mid-1980s by the Krasnogorski Mekhanicheskii Zavod (KMZ), the Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk in western Moscow (Russia). It was intended to be the successor to the NAILON and the highly popular AJAX-12 (F-21).

The camera was mainly used for surveillance operations by the Soviet intelligence agency KGB and its sister organisations in other Warsaw Pact countries. The NEOZIT (F-27) was suc­cee­ded in 1989 by the very similar ZAKHOD 2 (ЗАХОД) — the last one before the collapse of the USSR.

  1. Neozit is sometimes written as Neosit, Neotsit or Neocet.
  2. Zakhod is sometimes written as Zahod or Zachod.

Specifications
    Weight without film and accessories.

References
  1. H. Keith Melton, et al., NAILON (KGB) Camera
    The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras. pp. 120-122.
    ISBN 978-0-7643-2616-2.
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