In 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union officially began to establish diplomatic relations, and although the two countries explicitly established diplomatic relations, they also tried to install spies in each other's countries behind their backs. In particular, the Soviet Union used its own advantages to train many beautiful-looking spies "swallows" Who were well trained to infiltrate and place in various departments of the United States, and tried to pass on various kinds of information back and forth.
In 1938, a year after the start of World War II, the KGB intensified its surveillance of the US Embassy, and the spies "Swallows" all showed their fists, dressed as young and beautiful troupe actors or heroic female soldiers, and secretly sent Autumn Waves to these American soldiers and security personnel in the Soviet Union, and soon captured the hearts of many Americans and sent back a lot of intelligence.
But soon the Soviet Union was no longer able to satisfy such fragmentary intelligence, and after the 1943 U.S.-Soviet, Anglo-German summit, Stalin gave the supreme instructions to the KGB Beria, the head of the U.S.-Based Organization, to step up surveillance of Averela Kaliman, the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, at all costs, and even to find a way to put a wiretap in his office.
After the bugging device was completed, even Stalin was amazed by it, and the "Golden Lip" operation began. One of the most difficult aspects of the operation was how to put this small bugging device in the office of the embassy, knowing that the embassy was extremely strict and could not be entered and exited casually. The KGB first thought of a way to do it, that is, he directed a fire and tried to enter disguised as a firefighter, but was turned away by the highly vigilant embassy security personnel.
They had to re-find a way to deliver the bugging device to the embassy's office, and after racking their brains they thought of giving a gift to Kaliman. He then hid the "golden lips" in the gift and entered his office in muddy waters. As a result, more than twenty kinds of valuable wooden and leather handicrafts were sent to the conference rooms of senior KGB officials, and after careful screening, the Scythian shield made of black sandalwood, the two-meter-long mammoth ivory, the ivory telephone given to Nicholas II by the king of Sweden, and the one-meter-high paper basket made of elephant leg bones were identified as the carriers of the "golden lips". Beriad specially invited the authority on the study of wiretaps, academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences Berger and Iofe to conduct a final examination of the selected gifts. After testing, the two experts agreed that these gifts are not up to the mission of carrying the "Golden Lips", and the best choice is to make the corresponding gifts according to the special properties of the "Golden Lips".
In the end, Beria chose to make a national emblem of the United States, and found a great opportunity in 1945. Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill were meeting in Yatar. The Soviet Union seized the opportunity to hold the opening ceremony of the "Young Pioneer Fitness Camp" in Crimea. And in the name of the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union, Roosevelt and Churchill were invited to visit. The President and Prime Minister were busy with official duties and certainly did not have time to attend the event, so Ambassador Kaliman to the Soviet Union attended the event. At the grand opening ceremony, when the childish Young Pioneers sang the American national anthem with a natural sound, Kaliman was so excited that he could not do it.
The Young Pioneers presented Kaliman with a beautiful American national emblem and put it in his office, and in this way, the "golden lips" came to the office of the U.S. Embassy in a dignified manner, and lived for eight years. During this period, the Americans changed ambassadors four times, and when each ambassador was stationed, without exception, all the furnishings in the office were replaced, but the national emblem has not changed here. It wasn't until 1953 that the United States discovered this.