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Subject: Re: Laser eavesdropping
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Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 22:08:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  6 22:08:26 1987
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In article <2632@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>	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...

I heard something very similar, except it was a metal box, whose microwave
resonance changed as sound waves deformed it.

>                                        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.

Ditto.
--
	-Colin Plumb (watmath!watnot!ccplumb)

Silly quote:
His foot is in his mouth up to his ear.