Showing posts with label Great Seal Bug. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Seal Bug. Show all posts
Monday, August 4, 2025

Documentary: The Thing (No, not the 1951 & 1982 monster movies. The Russian Spy Thing.)

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'The Thing' a captivating short film that uncovers one of history's most astonishing espionage incidents of the 20th Century. Th...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

The Cold War Spy Technology Which We All Use

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From: The Thing (aka The Great Seal Bug), to RFID cardkeys and tap-to-pay credit cards. Moscow, 4 August, 1945. The European chapter of Worl...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

SPECIAL EDITION: U.S. Bugging Operation Against Soviets

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by  Zach Dorfman Recently, I obtained a set of declassified 1980s intelligence files from Poland’s cold war-era archives. The files detailed...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Washington Policymakers Bluster About High-Tech Foreign Surveillance (again)

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Washington policymakers are growing increasingly worried about the threat of high-tech foreign surveillance, a development complicated by ...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

The Great Seal Bug Story - 58 Years Ago Today

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In 1946, Soviet school children presented a two foot wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Ambassador Averell Harriman. ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

How the Dutch Bugged the Soviet Embassy -- Updated with Excellent Graphics

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Our friend in The Netherlands, Dr. Cees Wiebes, has alerted us to some updates on the cryptomuseum.com website. Click to enlarge. Bac...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

The Great Seal Redux - Former Minister Admits to Installing a Video / Audio Bug

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Ghana - The former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has said that he installed the spying device retrieved fr...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

How The Great Seal Bug Became Your Electronic Toll Tag

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The story of the electronic tollbooth begins at the turn of the century, in St. Petersburg, Russia . That's where Leon Theremin was born...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

The Great Seal Bug - Excellent Synopsis

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In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (sort of a Soviet scouting group) presented a ca...