LODGE DISPLAYS EAVESDROPPER SOVIET'S EAGLE GIFT TO U.S. EMBASSY BUILT TO WORK LIKE TROJAN-HORSE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05986994
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 29, 2022
• Case Number: F-2022-01153
• Publication Date: May 26, 1956

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Lodge Di %lays mavesuropper
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Soviet's Eagle rGift-to .: S. Embassy
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UNITED 4NATIONS, .N. Y.,
� May 26....6,''AP)�Henry Cabot
�Lattige displayed. to the se-
curity Council today a hand-
carved 'wooden.-eagle � with a
listening device hidden inside.
He. said Russians had given
It to the American Ambassa'-
-:- dor in Moscow.-to hang. in his
Iiiffice 'so thy could eavesdrop
on Conversations. He offered
the ronnd copy of the seal of
the United States as "a con-
crete example, of, Soviet
.espionage."� '
The' United States Ambas-
sador said the United States
had found well over 100 con-
. cpiled listening devices ,._ in
"numerous embassies" in the.
Soviet Union : and Other such
countries-25 4n Poland, and
the latest with the past month.
� The Sotviet delegation smiled
as Lodge talked. Then. For-
eign Minister An A.
Gromyko remarked. that
Lodge had shown the Council
"a picture." He asked what
play it was out of and when
the ply would open.
Lodge came back':
"It's not. a picture., It's not
a work of art. It's not out of
Picture on Page A14
any plays It's out of .the Soviet
Union." - '
- Poland's Ambassador Jerzy
Michalowski said he. wouldn't
try to answer Lodge, but could
give some interesting informa-
tion "concerning the micro-
phones in some of our build-
ings in this country."
Lodge �said Russians � had
given the "beautiful Piece of
earying" tb the United ,States
/
Ambassador not long ago�and
"then a � clandestine listening
device '*as discovered inside."
It looked. like .a solid piece,
he explained, but turned, out
to be in two parts, front and
back/joined by a transparent
ring and hollow
' Lodge showed the' Council
how it opened:.-and said,
"Here is the clandestine listen-
ing device' with the aerial.�
right under the eagle's beak."
This, he asserted, would en-
able persons outside the Em-
bassy to listen to conversa-
thins in the Ambassador's of-
fice. � ,
� Ledge' later said he did not
know when the listening de-
vice was diseovered � I've
had it three,or four bays, wait-
ing for a good chance .to .uSe
it."
Associated PreSS-,
' L9dge Exposes Listening .Device- �
,United States Ambassador Henry, Cabot , Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow. The de-
Lodge is shown- as he displayed before the vice, a wooden carving of the Great Seal
United Nations 'Security. Council -a listen-, ^f.tir Kniteit,States, was hollow and con.'
in device, which he said had been planted tamed a hidden microphone.. Assisting..
in ,i952 14pviee authorities' in what , is ' Lodge is Richard- Pedersen of the United.
now the offices
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