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Update: from the justsecurity article: >The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They
by mhneu 9y ago
Update: from the justsecurity article:
>The Russian security services were also known to flood the U.S. embassy in Moscow with electromagnetic radiation. They would beam concentrated microwaves and electronic pulses at the Embassy in an attempt to eavesdrop on U.S. typewriters and conversations.
If very high levels of microwaves were used, perhaps this could explain the injuries. Microwaves are electromagnetic, not acoustic, but they are absorbed very weakly by water. It could be that people were injured by heating inside their ears or brain.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI'm curious if the US embassy performs signal intelligence or other broad spectrum EM monitoring of the embassy facility.
- zdkl 9y agoI'm not familiar with embassies specifically, but it stands to reason that some hold military grade communication hardware. Where that is the case, you can be pretty sure there's a squad of specialists nearby with all the antennas and diagnostic tools you can dream of. And that's not even accounting for the spooks.
- ju-st 9y agoSurely, considering they even listen to other communications from their own embassies: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-britains-secret-listening-post-in-the-heart-of-berlin-8921548.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/revealed-brit...
- nine_k 9y agoThis is because the US embassy in Moscow was bugged by a passive bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)