The "refrigerator" had a false back. When the phones were placed inside and attention directed elsewhere, NSA agents opened the back of the refrigerator and in

The "refrigerator" had a false back. When the phones were placed inside and attention directed elsewhere, NSA agents opened the back of the refrigerator and installed bugging devices (complete with reserve power cells) in the phones. The goal has always been to identify and entrap counter-intelligence targets. Snowden is a false flag exercise, which would be obvious to anyone who read Catch-22. You can never be paranoid enough, because they have a million people with TS clearance thinking of ways to get into your heads. That's just in the US.