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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Leon Theremin


Theremin, yes the same Theremin who built the instrument that made the Star Trek theme song famous, had a hand in espionage as well. 


Albeit not a willing one. Turns out his life is actually quite tragic. 

In addition to that story, Adam Fabio takes a trip through the details of "The Thing", a bug installed in the US Embassy by the Soviet Union during the cold war

 It used no batteries, instead depending on a carrier frequency transmitted by the "listener", causing the resonant cavity to transmit back the audio from the room at a higher frequency.

 Pretty nifty, and so was the hiding place: a hand-carved wooden seal of the United States. 

Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts, right?

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