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A replica of the Great Seal, a gift given to the US ambassador to the Soviet Union by schoolchildren, turned out to be a bug the Kremlin used to listen to top-secret meetings for over 7 years.
The Great Seal Bug was an eavesdropping device that the Soviets tricked a US ambassador into installing in the Spaso House in Moscow.
Kaushik Patowary May 10, 2021 0 comments In 1946, a group of Soviet school children from the Young Pioneer organization presented to the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, William Harriman, a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States, as a token of appreciation, amity, and solidarity for their alliance in the Second World War, and as promise of continuance of this friendship. The seemingly harmless gift was hung in the study of the ambassador's Moscow residence, where it stayed for seven years until it was discovered that the innocuous-looking souvenir was more than a...
James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here Gareth Corfield Wed 17 Feb 2021 // 12:44 UTC Share Copy A Soviet equivalent of Nazi Germany's Enigma cipher machine has sold for more than double its auction asking price – while a secret camera disguised as a pack of cigarettes went for nearly $20,000. A Fialka M-125-3M 10-rotor cipher code machine complete with accessories sold for $22,400 at a US auction held over the weekend, trumping the device's $8,000-$12,000 estimated sale price. The Fialka, and many other surveillance objects used in the Soviet era, came from the K...