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Subject: Deja Vu All Over Again - Part 2 0f 2 parts
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Part 2 of 2 Parts
"Moscow's Trojan Horse
.........
The samovar is usually shaped like a large metal urn. Traditionally,
hot coals or similar heat the water in the middle, but more modern
samovars contain an electric coal. The samovar is simply the boiling
device within the object. The teapot presented to the Queen Mother was
relatively modern and highly decorated.
It's unlikely officials will discuss the matter further, but some
intelligence officials believe the move was simply 'precautionary' and
a sign of the times between Russian and Britain. UK intelligence
specialist Crispin Black said: It's been there for 20 years. The staff
at Balmoral were never allowed to plug it in because they were
suspicious of the Soviet era wiring - and normally for a bug you need
a power source. So I think it's extremely unlikely it's a bug of any
sort. However, given the current concerns if you like about the
resurgence of the Russian intelligence machine - perhaps the samovar
fell pray to that attitude,' he says.
Presenting gifts containing complicated bugs has always been a prime
consideration for countermeasure teams. Astonishingly, just weeks
after the end of WW II, and in a move that was to ignite an intense
Cold War era, the KGB used all its know how to place what could be
described as an 'infinity bug' in a wooden replica of the United
States Great Seal. On 4 August 1945, Soviet school children gave the
carving to US Ambassador Averell Harriman. It hung in the ambassador's
Moscow residential office until 1952, when State Department officials
discovered that it was 'bugged'.
The microphone hidden inside was passive and only activated when the
Soviets wanted it to be. They shot radio waves from a van parked
outside into the ambassodor's office and could then detect the changes
of the microphone's diaphram inside the resonant cavity. When Soviets
turned off the radio waves it was virtually impossible to detect the
hidden 'bug'. The
Soviets were able to eavesdrop on the US ambassador's conversations
for six years. A replica of the seal can be found in the NSA museum.
But it wasn't just the Russians who were keen to 'present' gift items.
Both the UK and the USA are past-masters at trying to gain an insight
into other peoples businesses. Former MI5 man Peter Wright admitted
that besides targeting embassies of Britain's adversaries, 'allies
were just as vunerable'. In one incident, MI5 took advantage of the
arrival of the new Soviet ambassodor to London. MI5 devised a plan
whereby officials would present the ambassador with a 'welcoming gift'
- a small model of the Kremlin. It was hoped he would find the object
reminded him of home and place it on his work desk."
THE END
Reg Curtis
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List members need to view this entire video posting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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