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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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Beware of strangers bearing gifts.
BFL
Interesting story. Thanks for posting it.
But nowadays we've let China infiltrate how much of our electronic world??
Heck, they probably are reading FR as we even type.
> Beware of strangers bearing gifts. <
In related news, Trump will be taking possession of a Boeing 747 for use as the next Air Force One. It’s a gift from Qatar.
I still can’t quite wrap my head around that.
So, perhaps also beware of “friends” bearing gifts.
No, we’re not
Ooops...
I'm with you on that. The plane was shipped in pieces, apparently, then reassembled here. I assume each piece was inspected very thoroughly. I just don't understand why they couldn't source a 747 here.
Heck, they probably are reading FR as we even type. Some probably have accounts.
Those who are against us to spy.
Those who are with us not daring to post because of the spies.
Later on, the Soviets build new US embassy in Moscow.
It turned out to be huge antenna build to record everything inside.
The panels had wires in them, all fitting together to be able to record and send everything inside the embassy.
US refused to move in!
I’ve read that before............
When the new embassy was being built, every item that was used to build it was brought in from the US and was inspected, and they still had to tear it down and start over.
The Soviets had somehow managed to get millions of semiconductor diodes, tiny as grains of sand, mixed into the concrete and mortar so that any counterintelligence scanner would be overloaded with them......................
I’ve never understood the people saying, “the Russians are stupid mongols, knuckle dragging savages, gas station attendants.” Underestimating our adversaries is foolish and possibly deadly. Sun Tzu would use this stupidity as a case study
All your base are belong to us.
Absolutely MARVELOUS article. So many thanks and have passed the link on.
The Qatari plane is a stop gap.
Boeing is way behind schedule, but in two years, a pair or new Air Force One’s will be delivered.
That’s what happens when you underestimate your enemy...
The nickname was undoubtedly inspired by Phil Harris' hit song The Thing (1950).
I just don't understand why they couldn't source a 747 here.Three reasons.
“they probably are reading FR as we even type”
Also posting and taking notes for future expanded free speech shutdown operations,
Being Tavistock UK agents, Brennan Legion at the CIA, CCP agents with narrative pushers using AI Content Farms, Influence Operators, bots operating across social networks and forums. Agentic AI, autonomous and seeking out, arguing, and persuading people to support a specific issue or ideology.
Now top that off with AI rewriting while shadow banning online established historical truths in real-time to skew exactly what and how those in power want you to remember it.
Evil times have come to the republic.
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