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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.
Anything from a metallic Rubik’s cube to an aluminum trash can inside a room could give away your private conversations.
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...