The Thing: The Soviet Listening Device Gifted to the U.S. Ambassador in 1946
In 1946, soviet children gifted a carved great seal replica to the us ambassador, unknowingly hiding a listening device called ‘the thing.’ invented by leon theremin, it activated only when remotely illuminated and went undetected for seven years. found in 1952 during a counter-surveillance sweep, the bug’s discovery fueled cold war tensions and was revealed […]