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The Thing:
In 1946, Soviet school children gave the US ambassador a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador prominently displayed the seal in his study. In 1952, technicians discovered a small bugging device hidden within the seal.
The bug was activated by an ultra-high frequency beam generated from a van parked near the US Embassy.
Americans learned of "the Thing" in 1960, when American Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge displayed the inside of the seal to the United Nations. |