‘The US embassy in Moscow had a room inside a room. Because the original building used a lot of local materials and labor it was so bugged that they ended up importing stuff to build a sound proofed conference room inside one of the rooms.
‘Effectively a cone of silence.’ -filanwizard
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‘A south Korean surveillance operation found out that The south Korean conservative party was bribing North Korea to launch attacks against South Koreans near elections so that the South Korean public would elect a candidate that was tough against North Korea.’ -matty_london
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‘In a very recent case, Russia sent a spy to Serbia to recruit some folks for sabotage/assassinations in the west. Of course the goon didn’t speak any Serbian or English, and the Serb that he hired didn’t speak any Russian. So they communicated…via Google Translate.
‘Like, laid out all their plans and schemes. Naturally, the NSA clocked it and monitored their activity for months, before eventually exposing the whole network. Absolute fucking cinema’ -vincevega87
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‘During the Cold War the Soviets showed off a lunar lander at an international space show in Mexico City. The CIA delayed its shipment back by a day and in a single night disassembled it, measured and photographed it down to every bolt, and then put it back together even putting the same crate nails in their original places.’ -girusatuku
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‘Johnny Cash was the guy that first picked up Russian comms about Stalin’s death.’ -Someone4350
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‘During WW2, the OSS planned to airdrop glow in the dark foxes into Japan to freak them out. They experimented on racoons in central park before abandoning the project.
‘Operation Fantasia’ -arse_raptor
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‘During the Cold War, the Soviets had frequent toilet paper shortages, and sometimes resorted to using documents instead, which ended up in trash bins rather than flushed.
‘Western handlers demanded their agents retrieve these documents, which they were unsurprisingly not fans of.
‘I thought I read that Western spies were tasked with destroying toilet paper to encourage this further but can’t find it now.
