On February 9, 1945, Soviet students gave the United States a beautiful gift of national emblem at the opening ceremony of the "Alteq" Young Pioneers Summer Camp, but this gift became an indelible shame for the United States. After World War II, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were tense. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, the Soviet government has wanted to eavesdrop on the U.S. embassy in the Soviet Union, hoping to obtain some core classified information from it to counter the United States.
But the United States was quite strict about secrecy, and everything in the embassy was subject to strict scrutiny, and this mysterious gift played a major role when the Soviets were at a loss. This gift lasted seven years at the U.S. Embassy and successfully provided a lot of intelligence to the Soviet Union. So what mysteries are hidden in this gift, and why can it steal intelligence? For seven years, why did the Americans not know?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > eavesdropping plan failed</h1>
The Soviet Union and the United States established diplomatic relations in 1933, and the U.S. embassy was also stationed in the Soviet union, but the Soviet government was still jealous, after all, they did not know what kind of things the United States would do in secret.
However, at that time, the U.S. Embassy was very tightly guarded, the Soviet Union could not start at all, and Stalin also issued an order that it was necessary to use all means to eavesdrop on the U.S. Embassy in the Soviet Union, but it could not be discovered, after all, the eavesdropping was not discovered, it would make the Soviet Union lose face, which was a very headache for the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs that received the order, after all, this was not a simple action.
In order to eavesdrop on important information from the United States, the Soviet Union secretly replaced the people around the American Embassy in the Soviet Union with agents in order to better monitor all the actions of the American Embassy.
But although the female agents had their own advantages, they could not steal higher-level American intelligence, so Stalin told the KGB of the intelligence bureau to install the wiretap in the US Embassy anyway, so the KGB began to plan this operation, they first targeted William Harriman, who was stationed in the US Embassy at the time.
But Harriman can be said to be a man of invincibility, even the most beautiful female agents in the Soviet Union can not approach him, and the people around him are all Americans, and it is extremely difficult to break through his defenses. So the Soviet Intelligence Service had to start planning new operations, leaving the task in the hands of the Soviet scientist Leon Tremen.
Lyon Tremen was a well-known Soviet eavesdropper researcher, whose radio frequency identification technology confirmed his contribution to the world, and the Soviet Union also held a meeting for this operation, and Stalin listened to the report of the meeting and expressed great hope for this operation. With the support of scientists who studied wiretaps and the backing of the state, the Soviet Intelligence Service began a series of actions, but it was also very difficult to put the wiretaps in Harriman's office, so the KGB began to try various means, and even used fires to enter the U.S. Embassy, but the U.S. Embassy did not allow anyone to enter, and in this way, the Soviet plan failed again and again.
Although the plan was empty, but the Soviets were more and more frustrated, in this seemingly smokeless war, in fact, there were many mysteries hidden, and when the Soviet Union had no way to do anything, someone proposed a seemingly ordinary, but very worthwhile method, that is, to mix the wiretaps in gifts and give them to the American Embassy.
After all, for the Soviet Union at that time, it was very beneficial to steal the core intelligence of the United States, which was very beneficial to defending the dignity of the country, but the problem is, the eavesdropping Americans can be monitored by equipment and instruments, what can be done?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="40" > Emperor pays off</h1>
Fortunately, the Soviet scientist Leon Tremen was a very good scientist, he had a unique insight into the study of eavesdropping devices, and made great contributions to the world, after all, as the founder of the world's radio frequency identification technology, he was the most suitable candidate for the Soviet Union in this operation.
The bugging devices studied by Soviet scientist Leon Tremen are very different from other ordinary wiretaps, they do not require battery support, and anti-eavesdropping equipment is even more difficult to detect its existence, but it is also painful to justify the gift of the US Embassy, so the KGB set its sights on the US national emblem.
After the target was targeted, the KGB began to make people customize the U.S. national emblem, using a large number of precious wood hand-carved, after continuous improvement, a delicate American national emblem was born, and as a carrier of wiretaps, the national emblem is also the best choice, and it is very likely that Harriman will put this gift in his office, and the Soviet wiretap is just installed on the eagle beak of the American national emblem.
Therefore, the Soviets called this gift-giving operation "Operation Golden Lips", but the Soviet Union at that time also faced a difficult problem, that is, how to create an opportunity to give this exquisite gift to Harriman, so the KGB could only wait patiently for the opportunity, after all, this operation was only allowed to succeed and not fail.
In February 1945, the Soviet Union announced to the outside world that it was going to hold an event, and this event was also a big start, the opening ceremony of the "Altai" junior fitness camp. The Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union also invited U.S. President Stanford and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who were attending the Yalta Conference at the time, which attracted great attention in the world, and the KGB knew that the opportunity to give gifts of the national emblem had come.
After all, the United States will never let go of this kind of activity that can improve its international status, but the Soviet Union's kind of activities are not big enough to allow the President of the United States to attend, so the United States and Britain both sent ambassadors to the Soviet Embassy in the Soviet Union at that time.
There is no doubt that the candidates to attend this event fell on the body of Harriman of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union, and at the scene of the event, the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union also sang the American national anthem to the US ambassador Harriman in English, which not only immersed Harriman in it, but also felt glorious, after all, in the face of these childish faces, Harriman was still very excited.
Just when the event reached its climax, the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union presented Harriman with this exquisite gift of the American national emblem, and Harriman was also full of praise when he saw the gift, so excited that he did not know where to put this gift for a while, so as not to live up to the intentions of the Soviet teenager, and the Soviets who stood by at this time proposed to put it in Harriman's office.
It is precisely because of the Soviet Union's differential treatment of the United States and Britain this time, which makes Harriman's heart ecstatic, so in the praise over and over again, Harriman put the American national emblem installed with a Soviet wiretap device in his office, and it is estimated that when the wiretap was later discovered, Harriman's intestines were remorseful.
But what is even more unexpected is that this American national emblem was hung in the US embassy for seven years, and in these seven years, the Soviet Union stole the core intelligence it wanted, and the United States has been kept in the dark, even if every time it finds that the action is wrong, it cannot find the root cause of the failure of the operation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > the secret behind the national emblem</h1>
After U.S. Ambassador Harriman put the U.S. coat of arms given by the Soviet Union in his office, the Soviet Union's plan to eavesdrop on the United States succeeded, and after that, many things that the United States felt strange happened, and whenever they were acting, the Soviet Union had prepared countermeasures in advance, which made the United States scratch its head.
The U.S. Embassy even suspected that there was an internal ghost within itself, but they could not find evidence, they could not think of it at the time, the mystery was hidden in the gift of the U.S. national emblem, and the U.S. Embassy has changed several ambassadors, but no one has replaced this national emblem, after all, in their minds, the national emblem represents everything.
There was also an ambassador to the Soviet Union, in order to be able to match the office items with this national emblem, the office was arranged inside and out, replacing many office supplies, in the past seven years, this office has been changing all the time, but only this national emblem has been hung upright in the office of the embassy.
As the office of the U.S. Embassy Harriman, there are naturally strict regulations, but thousands of people come in and out, but no one has found the presence of a bugging device on the national emblem, and at that time, the U.S. Embassy had conducted many tests on this gift, and did not find any of them inappropriate, which was enough to prove the strength of the Soviet Union.
In fact, at that time, the US government detected that there was an abnormal signal near the embassy, but it could not detect what caused it, and after countless tests and investigations, there was still no result, which made the US embassy feel very strange, and they could not imagine that all the abnormalities appeared on the wooden national emblem hanging in the ambassador's office.
If it were not for George Kennan as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, it is estimated that the wiretap on the national emblem would not have been detected so far, as a famous American diplomat, he was very hostile to the Soviet Union, in the face of the abnormal situation near the U.S. embassy, in the first time he served as ambassador to the Soviet Union, he opened the national emblem.
The moment the wooden national emblem was opened, the United States found the secret hidden in it, the eavesdropping device inside the national emblem was actually not needed to be supported by electronic equipment, and it was made of special materials, no wonder it was detected for so long without being discovered, and it had to be said that the technology of Soviet scientists was really amazing.
After learning the truth, the United States did not immediately expose the behavior of the Soviet Union, after all, this is a very humiliating thing for a big country like the United States, this matter was not made public until 1960, when the crash occurred, the United States in order to lead public opinion to the Soviet Union, deliberately at the United Nations conference to the world to open the secret of being eavesdropped by the Soviet Union.
After the United States discovered the Soviet Union's Golden Lip Operation, using its own high-quality resources, it quickly researched and produced exactly the same wiretap, and the development of wiretaps to the present day has also derived many things that people need to use in daily life, such as bus cards, ID cards, etc. This radio equipment has been widely used.
The Soviet Union's surveillance of the US Embassy can be said to be a landmark plan, from which they have obtained a lot of favorable intelligence, in fact, the competition between countries, in addition to the smoke of war, there is also a smokeless secret struggle, but in the final analysis, this incident has become a great shame in the history of the United States, which is talked about.