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There was a huge diplomatic incident in 2006 when the Russians discovered listening devices planted by the UK. This doesn't happen every day. http://www.guardi
by TillE 13y ago
There was a huge diplomatic incident in 2006 when the Russians discovered listening devices planted by the UK. This doesn't happen every day.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-s...
- loupeabody 13y agoWow, a fake rock? I can hardly believe this actually happened in a serious context.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoLooks like something they got from Sharper Image.
- Spooky23 13y agoSure it does. The Soviets went as far as to embed some sort of passive microphones in cinder blocks used to build the US Embassy in Moscow. The US planted copier repairmen/spies to install cameras in xerox machines at the Russian embassy.
- brown9-2 13y agoJust like when the US built a tunnel under the Soviet embassy in DC: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-revealed-tunnel-at-soviet-embassy.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/04/us/us-thinks-agent-reveale...
- objclxt 13y agoIt wasn't a 'huge diplomatic incident' - it didn't really impact UK/Russian relations in any meaningful or long term way. It was nowhere on the scale of, say, Litvinenko, which did have diplomatic consequences. Countries like to crow when they come across potentially rather inept attempts at espionage, but there's no real diplomatic issues raised since everyone expects espionage to be happening. It's PR more than anything else.