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58 Nikolai Brusnitsyn, Openness and Espionage (Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1990). Soviet officials gave copies of the article to members of the U.S. delegation the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks in Geneva.
59 Ibid., 32.
60 Krassilnikov, The Phantoms of Tchaikovsky Street Prizraki c Ulitsy Chaykovskogo (The Phantoms of Tchaikovsky Street) (Moscow: GEYA Iterum, 1999).
61 Ibid., 179-187.
62 Ibid.
CHAPTER TWELVE
1 “What happens in the field stays in the field” was often repeated and applied, except when the stories were too good not to be retold at Headquarters. These stories became part of OTS’s culture and lore.
2 TDY is a government acronym for “temporary duty” and refers to assignments, usually less than 180 days, away from an employee’s home area.
3 “Tech hotels” were not exclusively the culture of OTS. Officers from the Office of Communications, who managed the Agency’s communications networks around the world, earned a similar reputation for knowing where to find cheap rooms.
4 See: U.S. Department of State web page: moscow.usembassy.gov/embassy/embassy.php?record_id=spaso.
5 Ibid.
6 The common listening devices of the time were phone taps or microphones hidden in ceilings and walls and hardwired to a manned listening post.
7 Sanche de Gramont, The Secret War: The Story of Espionage since World War II (New York: Putnam, 1962), 411. See also U.S. Department of State Web site: moscow.usembassy.gov/embassy.
8 George F. Keenan, Memoirs: 1925-1950 (New York: Pantheon, 1967), 189.
9 At the time, audio operations that were hardwired were state-of-the-art. In most cases they required only that a microphone be planted, with wires leading away to a nearby listening post. In this way, the listeners were assured of secure lines and a steady power source from the post or the target building’s own power. The unit could be turned off and on at will. It was only later, when technology had developed sufficiently to provide small, reliable transmitters, that “wireless” audio operations came into being.
10 See: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/interviews/beria/ for excerpts of an interview with Sergo Beria, the son of Lavrenty Beria (chief of the NKVD—the Soviet secret police) who participated in the eavesdropping operations at Tehran and Yalta.
11 Ibid.
12 Gary Kern, “How ‘Uncle Joe’ Bugged FDR,” Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 47:1, 2003, 19-31.
13 Peter Wright, Spycatcher (New York: Viking, 1987), 20.
14 Ibid.
15 Peter Wright, The Spycatcher’s Encyclopedia of Espionage (Port Melbourne, Victoria: William Heinemann Australia, 1991), 238. and Spycatcher (New York: Dell, 1987), 26, 28-29.
16 See: Melton, Ultimate Spy (New York: DK, 2002), 104, for a diagram of “the Thing,” photos, and a description of its operation.
17 Wright, Spycatcher, 78-79.
18 Ibid.
19 Wright, The Spycatcher’s Encyclopedia of Espionage (Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: William Heinemann Australia, 1991), 212-213.
20 Albert Glinsky, Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 273.
21 The developer, Soviet scientist Léon Sergeyevich Theremin, first caused the filament inside an incandescent light bulb to resonate as a microphone in 1943 before perfecting the eavesdropping device inside the carved wooden seal in 1945. In 1947 Theremin subsequently developed a system to eavesdrop on foreign embassies in Moscow using infrared light beams aimed at “points of architectural resonance” such as windowpanes. For this accomplishment he was awarded the Stalin Prize, 1st Class, the equivalent at the time to the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes combined. For more on Theremin see: Glinsky, Theremin.
22 Glinsky, Theremin, 263-264.
23 “Finds” are systems, components, and devices made and used by a foreign (non-U. S.) intelligence service for clandestine operations and usually returned to the United States for examination and analysis. These include any spy gear such as communications,