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From: roy@phri.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Laser eavesdropping
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 12:51:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  4 12:51:19 1987
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In article <16143@sun.uucp> mae@sun.UUCP (Mike Ekberg) writes:
> Wasn't the U.S. Embassy in Moscow being snooped on a couple of years
> ago with *microwaves* being bounced off windows?

	The story I heard (about as reliable as any Nth-hand info) was that
the the Russians presented the American embassy folks with some sort of
carved wood plaque of an american bald eagle, or something like that, as a
gift.  Of course, the embassy folks gave it to the electronics types to
look at to make sure it wasn't bugged and then hung it up in the office.
It never occured to them that the sheet metal plate on the back of it might
actually be a microwave reflector...  Memory is hazy, but I seem to
remember hearing this 5-7 years ago, and the story was at least a few years
old by then.  Believe it at your own risk.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

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