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Однако во время визита вице-президент [Никсон], однажды испытал неудобство, и ему, возможно, грозила опасность [в 1959 в СССР]. Офицеры секретной службы, прикомандированные к команде его охраны, обнаружили высокий уровень радиации в посольстве США, в спальне вице-президента и вокруг нее. Никсону об этом доложили, но он все равно решил оттуда не съезжать. И тогда сотрудники его секретной службы разработали другой план. Офицеры расселись в спальне и начали громко ругать Советский Союз за попытку отравить вице-президента радиацией. На следующий день уровень радиации вернулся в норму. Откуда появилась радиация и была ли она связана с плохо работающим советским подслушивающим устройством, это так никогда и не выяснилось. [257]
Однако во время визита вице-президент [Никсон], однажды испытал неудобство, и ему, возможно, грозила опасность [в 1959 в СССР]. Офицеры секретной службы, прикомандированные к команде его охраны, обнаружили высокий уровень радиации в посольстве США, в спальне вице-президента и вокруг нее. Никсону об этом доложили, но он все равно решил оттуда не съезжать. И тогда сотрудники его секретной службы разработали другой план. Офицеры расселись в спальне и начали громко ругать Советский Союз за попытку отравить вице-президента радиацией. На следующий день уровень радиации вернулся в норму. Откуда появилась радиация и была ли она связана с плохо работающим советским подслушивающим устройством, это так никогда и не выяснилось. [257]
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Date: 2021-11-21 05:16 pm (UTC)Анекдот впервые опубликован в 1976 в New York Times, куда он попал из школьной газеты.
WASHINGTON, April 30 (AP) —Heavy radiation was discovered at the American Ambassador's residence in Moscow during Vice President Richard M. Nixon's visit there in 1959 but was halted after detection, according to two former Secret Service agents.
The agents said the radiation had been detected in the quarters where Nixon was staying.
The account is in a copyright article in this week's edition of Black and White, the newspaper of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington. Written by two seniors, Michael Gill and Richard Berke, it cited a “highly placed Government official who requested anonymity” as its source.
The agents, James Golden and John T. Sherwood, said they had filed a full report on the matter when they returned to Washington.
The men said they decided to try to bluff the Russians and went to an area they felt certain was “bugged.”
There they began discussing the radiation, criticizing the Russians and making comments like: “Do they think they can get away with a cheap trick like this?”
They said that about three hours later the radiation disappeared and did not resume during Mr. Nixon's stay.
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/01/archives/soviet-radiation-of-nixon-reported.html
В рассекреченных документах того времени говорится, что охрана предполагала, что радиоактивное излучение исходило от атомных батареек на чердаке и что оно могло послужить причиной смерти госсекретаря Джона Фостера Даллеса, который скончался в 1959 от рака: https://www.governmentattic.org/docs/StateDept_Nixon1959_Radiation.pdf
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Date: 2021-11-21 05:47 pm (UTC)The beam came from an antenna on the balcony of a nearby Soviet apartment and hit the upper floors of the embassy where the ambassador's office and more sensitive work was carried out. It had been first spotted in the 1950s and was later monitored from a room on the 10th floor. But its existence was a secret tightly held from all but a few working inside. "We were trying to figure out just what might be its purpose," explains Jack Matlock, number two at the embassy in the mid-70s.
But a new ambassador, Walter Stoessel, arrived in 1974 and threatened to resign unless everyone was told. "That caused something like panic," recalls Mr Matlock. Embassy staff whose children were in a basement nursery were especially worried. But the State Department played down any risk.
Then Ambassador Stoessel, himself, fell ill - with bleeding of the eyes as one of his symptoms. In a now declassified 1975 phone call to the Soviet ambassador to Washington, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger linked Stoessel's illness to microwaves, admitting "we are trying to keep the thing quiet". Stoessel died of leukaemia at the age of 66. "He decided to play the good soldier", and not make a fuss, his daughter told the BBC.
From 1976 screens were installed to protect people. But many diplomats were angry, believing the State Department had first kept quiet, and then resisted acknowledging any possible health impact. This was a claim echoed decades later with Havana syndrome.
What was the Moscow signal for? "I'm pretty sure that the Soviets had intentions other than damaging us," says Matlock. They were ahead of the US in surveillance technology and one theory was that they bounced microwaves off windows to pick up conversations, another that they were activating their own listening devices hidden inside the building or capturing information through microwaves hitting US electronic devices (known as "peek and poke"). The Soviets at one point told Matlock that the purpose was actually to jam American equipment on the embassy roof used to intercept Soviet communications in Moscow.
This is the world of surveillance and counter-surveillance, one so secret that even within embassies and governments only a few people know the full picture.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58396698
Микроволновое облучение прекратилось в мае 1979.
MOSCOW, May 29 (AP) — The Soviet Union has stopped bombarding the American Embassy with microwaves, an embassy spokesman said today. The move was seen as an attempt by Moscow to improve relations before the meeting in June of President Carter and Leonid I. Brezhnev. the Soviet leader.
For the last three and a half years, strong beams have been aimed at the embassy's upper floors from transmitters east and south of the 10‐story structure.
“Neither the east nor the south signal has operated since the end of April,” the embassy spokesman said. “Hence, we have detected no radiation since that time from those sources.”
Other microwave sources in the area have been detected for years but were not considered comparable to the searchlight‐like beams aimed at the embassy building.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/30/archives/soviet-halts-microwaves-aimed-at-us-embassy.html
Этот шаг навстречу Картеру не спас судьбу «разрядки».
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Date: 2021-11-22 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-11-22 11:07 am (UTC)4 августа 1945 года делегация советских пионеров преподнесла послу США Авереллу Гарриману подарок — деревянное изображение Большой печати США. Посол повесил подарок на стене в своём кабинете, не подозревая, что внутри был встроен эндовибратор[2][3][4].
С помощью эндовибратора советские спецслужбы 7 лет прослушивали расположенную в здании московского исторического особняка резиденцию посла США — «Спасо-Хаус», (англ. Spaso House)[2]. За это время сменилось 4 посла, не один раз менялся интерьер кабинета, но деревянная Большая печать неизменно оставалась его главным украшением.
Эндовибратор был обнаружен случайно в 1951 году, когда радист посольства Великобритании, которое расположено в Москве в 700 метрах от посольства США, сканируя эфир, услышал англоязычную речь. Присланный на проверку инженер Дон Бэйли не смог найти «жучок», подозревая, что русские выключили прибор на тот момент. Эндовибратор окончательно был обнаружен лишь в 1952 году, когда помещение посольства проверили в очередной раз при смене посла[5].
https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80
Из воспоминаний Джорджа Кеннона:
“This episode was not without its amusing side. Earlier in the summer, before the arrival of my family, when I was living in the building alone. I had wanted to keep up my Russian, and particularly my fluency of vocabulary and pronunciation. Since there were no Russians with whom I could talk, I hit on the idea of reading a certain amount of Russian aloud to myself each evening. For purposes of vocabulary I wanted particularly to read material which had relation to current international problems, so that I would be fully conversant with the manner in which events and institutions were referred to in current Russian usage. Looking around for material of this sort, my eye fell on the scripts of Voice of America broadcasts to Russia, which were sent to me regularly for my information. On several occasions, therefore, I took the foreign-political commentaries from these scripts, vigorous and eloquent polemics against Soviet policies, and read them aloud to myself precisely in that upstairs study where the listening device was placed. I have often wondered what was the effect on my unseen monitors, and on those who read their tapes, when they heard these perfectly phrased anti-Soviet diatribes issuing in purest Russian from what was unquestionably my mouth, in my own study, in the depths of the night. Who, I wonder, did they think was with me? Or did they conclude I was trying to make fun of them?”
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Date: 2021-11-23 03:55 am (UTC)>> За это время сменилось 4 посла
Я сразу подумал, что в этой истории без Кеннана не обойдется. Гарриман, Смит, про Кирка ничего не знаю, Кеннан.