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The Thing
American Thinker ^ | 23 Jun, 2026 | Jacob Fraden

Posted on 06/24/2026 5:22:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

At the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union bugged the U.S. Embassy with one of the most ingenious devices ever created.

In the summer of 1952, an attaché at the American Embassy in Moscow was idly tuning his shortwave radio, searching for a broadcast from Washington. As he slowly turned the dial, a voice suddenly emerged from the static—a voice he knew all too well. It belonged to his superior, Ambassador George Kennan.

At first, he assumed it was a recording. Then his blood ran cold. What he was hearing was not a broadcast at all. It was a live conversation taking place at that very moment inside the ambassador’s office. The attaché listened in disbelief. Every word was perfectly clear.

Without hesitation, he raced upstairs, shoved past the secretary, burst into the office, and, to the astonishment of everyone present, pressed a finger to his lips. Silence! The room froze. Beckoning urgently to the ambassador, he led him into the embassy courtyard and whispered the incredible news into his ear.

Kennan was stunned. For all practical purposes, the walls of his office had become transparent. The ambassador immediately abandoned the room. Meetings were moved outdoors, and an urgent request for assistance was sent to Washington.

Within days, a team of counterintelligence specialists arrived. They attacked the office like surgeons operating on a patient whose life depended on the outcome. Walls were stripped bare. Floors were torn up. Ceilings were dismantled. Every inch was examined. Nothing. Yet the mysterious transmissions continued.

The investigators inspected every object in the room—the desk, telephones, lamps, chairs, and even the inkwell. Still nothing. Finally, their attention fell upon an ornate wooden carving of the Great Seal of the United States hanging above the ambassador’s desk. The plaque had been presented seven years

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: communism; spies
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To: MtnClimber

A modern Trojan horse.


21 posted on 06/24/2026 6:45:48 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: AppyPappy

“”No, we’re not
Ooops...””

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Lol!


22 posted on 06/24/2026 6:54:22 AM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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To: captmar-vell

Using AI Content Farms not to inform, not to enlighten, but to brainwash the public.


23 posted on 06/24/2026 6:56:03 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: MtnClimber
so that's what Slow Joe was talking about! "You know, the thing."
24 posted on 06/24/2026 7:22:13 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Jesus warned about a time coming when even the very elect would be deceived, if it were possible.

When USAID was shutdown, many forums went offline. The Tavistock sponsored ones only upped their NWO messaging. Not dissimilar to how they now operate Drudge Report.

Recall Maxine Waters stating matter-of-factly how Obama had a technology advantage that no one else has ever seen before, (Zuckerberg let him have all the Facebook data) There are photos of Obama toasting around a dinner table hosting the top technology leaders, they all looked giddy with excitement, like they were about to salute with a “Sieg Heil”

Now imagine what AI is (and soon will be doing even more of) in the service of anti-Christ.


25 posted on 06/24/2026 7:22:42 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: MtnClimber

Hmmm,I bet that’s where H. Beam Piper got the idea for the bug in CZC headquarters in his book “Little Fuzzy”.🤔


26 posted on 06/24/2026 7:42:57 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Mogger

Whatever you aren’t posting because of spies is not going to change anything. Go ahead and post it nobody in China cares.


27 posted on 06/24/2026 7:48:27 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: MtnClimber

“”””The Thing now resides in the CIA Museum at Langley—a silent witness to one of history’s greatest intelligence coups.””””

That museum is probably a big classroom for new agents, who need to learn and to be reminded to always be paranoid and proactive in their world, whether successes or failures, they see the possible.


28 posted on 06/24/2026 2:09:02 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: MtnClimber

Now your tv set and cell phone and new car are listening to everything and tracking what you watch and where you go.

I read that our troop locations and ship movements are tracked because the US military allows the troops and sailors to carry cell phones...!


29 posted on 06/25/2026 12:54:52 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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