The Great Seal Bug - photos

[Altair]

The Great Seal Bug was a covert listening device given by the Soviets to the unsuspecting U.S. Ambassador to the USSR in 1945.

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More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Th...tening_device)

Previously:

Spy coin - photo

[IntheGroove]

Spying as usual...
"WASHINGTON -- Soviet listening devices have been discovered in other allied embassies in Moscow in addition to the network of more than 40 microphones found in the U.S. Embassy recently, officials reported today."

[jdurand]

Not very good US security to let those be installed.

[Floradawg]

It was a passive diaphragm. A microwave beam was constantly aimed at it and the variations in the reflected beam were decoded as voices. For quite a while the US didn't understand why they were being bombarded by microwaves.