In May 1960, a distraught U.S. official at the United Nations publicly took out a "pin" from the U.S. coat of arms, accusing the KGB of using it to eavesdrop on the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union for eight years.
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, U.S. officials displayed Soviet eavesdropping artifacts
So, what is the eavesdropping principle of this pin, how did it be placed in the US Embassy for eight years without being discovered, and why did the United States expose itself in public?
It all started with the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1933, the United States established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. From this day on, the Soviet Union was determined to monitor and monitor the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union.
At the beginning, the USSR released a lot of "swallows", this is not ordinary "swallows", but a group of young and beautiful female intelligence officers, who pretended to be ballerinas and used beauty tricks to "fly" into the bedroom of American diplomats.
The swallows received an important piece of information that the core of the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union was on the top floor of the building, where there were U.S. conference rooms, military attachés' offices, secret telegraph rooms, and ambassadors' offices.
"Swallow" of the KGB
"Spy on them by all means at all costs!" Stalin gave the death order to Beria, the head of the KGB. Thus, the "confession plan" aimed at monitoring the US embassy was released.
In December 1943, at the direction of the KGB, Soviet physicist and inventor of the musical instrument Tremen, invented a new type of eavesdropping device based on the principle of the tremen.
This kind of eavesdropping device does not use electricity, and with the cooperation of antenna and microwave oscillator, long-distance sensing can be realized.
The tremen, which can be played without physical contact
To put it simply, as long as the Soviet Union pointed a high-power radio transmitter in the direction of the golden lip, even if it was three hundred meters away, the sound near the golden lip could be fully monitored, and when the golden lip was not aligned, it would not emit any signal.
Golden-lipped bugger
The head of the KGB was overjoyed when he learned the principle of this thing and ordered to send the "golden lip" to the American embassy by all means.
The residents upstairs around the embassy were replaced by the KGB, and on weekends, a large number of middle-aged women took the mattress to the balcony to dry, and after drying it, they beat it with sticks, "pop, pop" in a bang, and many "golden lips" flew to the courtyard of the US embassy.
Unfortunately, American diplomats talk in the courtyard with worthless information.
It's time to give them something special...
To deal with this..., you have to do something
The KGB first set fire to the U.S. embassy and then pretended to be a firefighter to try to go in and put out the fire. But American diplomats are also not vegetarians, saying that we will extinguish this fire ourselves, want to come in, no way!
The KGB changed its train of thought again. Can the Americans themselves obediently put bugs into the office?
The opportunity came, and in February 1945, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met in Yalta, and U.S.-Soviet relations reached their peak.
The Yalta Conference Big Three
While the iron was hot, on February 9, the Soviet Union announced the opening ceremony of the "Altec All-Soviet Young Pioneers Fitness Camp" on the shores of the Black Sea, and issued invitations to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the name of the Soviet Young Pioneers.
The letter was beautifully worded and respectful, praising President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill for their help to the Soviet Union during World War II, and cordially inviting them to the opening ceremony.
Roosevelt and Churchill were very happy, but they lacked skills, so they sent the American and British ambassadors to the Soviet Union to participate in the event.
U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Harriman
During the event, Soviet children sang the American national anthem loudly, and in the beautiful song, Harriman let down his guard.
At the end of the song, four Soviet Young Pioneers carried a beautifully carved American coat of arms and presented it to Harriman. The accompanying Soviet translator immediately introduced that the coat of arms of the United States was assembled from precious rosewood, poplar, sequoia, feminine brown, Persian parrotian, mahogany and black wood.
The masterful craftsmanship of Soviet craftsmen made the knowledgeable American diplomat exclaim:
"Oh my God! I couldn't believe my eyes. Where do I put it best?
The Soviet translator said, "Of course it's your office, the British will be jealous." ”
Beautiful coat of arms of the United States, gold-lipped bugger placed inside
Harriman did hang the American coat of arms gifted by the Soviets in his office, and from this day on, a steady stream of top-secret American intelligence flowed into the hands of the KGB.
Several U.S. ambassadors who were later replaced also liked this exquisite coat of arms statue very much, and have been hanging in the office without replacement.
In eight years, the Americans wanted to break their heads, and they could not understand why a lot of top-secret intelligence was mastered by the Soviet Union, and the US embassy in the Soviet Union was screened several times, but nothing was found.
Until 1952, when the new American ambassador, George Kennan, took office, he was unhappy with the national emblem sent by the Soviets, so he asked people to remove it and open it for inspection, and found the pin inside and handed it over to electronic experts for study.
Statue of the coat of arms of the United States being opened
After two months of research, British scientists finally figured out how it worked and imitated it.
For eight years, from 1945 to 1952, the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union was closely monitored, which became a disgrace to the CIA.
They kept this secret until 1960, when the American U2 reconnaissance plane was shot down by the Soviet Union.
During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, in order to detect the information of important military facilities of the Soviet Union, the United States developed an advanced U2 reconnaissance aircraft, which could fly at an altitude of 20,000 meters, exceeding the flight altitude of Soviet fighter aircraft at that time.
The Soviet KGB secretly sneaked into the US military airfield in Peshawar in Pakistan and modified the dashboard, causing the US pilot to look at the dashboard display of 20,000 meters, and the actual flight altitude was 10,000 meters, and was shot down by Soviet missiles.
American planes shot down
The Soviets testified with the wreckage of aircraft and the testimony of American pilots that American aircraft repeatedly invaded Soviet airspace. For a time, international public opinion was very unfavorable to the United States.
In desperation, the Americans could only exhibit the wiretaps installed by the Soviet KGB at the UN General Assembly, and blew themselves up the scandal of the embassy being tapped by the Soviet Union for eight years.
Since then, a generation of eavesdropping artifacts has come to an end, but the contest between the CIA and the KGB continues...
The United States displays wiretaps at the United Nations