[BC] Is That a Radio Station In Your Pocket, Or...

[Allen Sherrill]

If I remember right, what you are talking about happened in the late 1970s.  The bug described in earlier posts that was hidden inside the wall sculpture was discovered in the early 1950s.

Allen Sherrill

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:35 PM, James B. Potter  wrote:
>That ain't the way I heard it.  In either Bamford's Puzzle Palace or The
>Codebreakers,  it was explained that the US Embassy in Moscow was bugged by
>the Ruuskies transmitting powerful CW microwave RF at the office windows,
>then receiving the reflections off the glass. Conversations inside the
>embassy would vibrate the glass and thus mechanically modulate the CW RF.
>The microwave RF was so intense that US diplomatic personnel suffered injury
>from the exposure. Symptoms included cataracts, sterility and skin
>deterioration, among others.