U.S. SAYS 40 MIKES-'BUGGED' MOSCOW EMBASSY FOR DECADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210030-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: May 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

American personnel had been
instructed always to act on the
assumption that their offices
and residences had been bugged
and precautions had been taken
to insure secrecy when sensi-
ive information was being ban-
died. In many of the American
embassies, specially construct.
ed rooms have been built where
sensitive discussions could take
lace without audio-penetration.
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Moscow had been found and
;destroyed.
A strong protest note was do-.
"livered Tuesday to the Sovictl
lForeign Office by.Ambassado.rl
Roy Kohler. State Department
1officials said that the Foreign
Office informed Kohler that it
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the worst case of electronic spy.
ping by a friendly country that
they had ever encountered.
The 40 microphones in the
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embassy, the State Departments
said, constituted the most re-)
cent disclosure of a continuing
effort to penetrate American
posts behind the Iron Curtain
with listening devices and mi.
lery in Moscow, more than,13q
such devices of various types
had been located and removed
1from embassy buildings in 'the
the
capitals of all the satellite coun-
ties since 1949.
Whether the Russians ob?
1,tained significant sensitive in-
}formation through the bugging',
(of the embassy has not been de.
? ?rtermined. The State Depart.
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as been compromised.
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'have been there since 1953, al-
~~li been found un.
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'Ingvirrer Washington Bureau
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BY RICHARD RESTON
11--l-,ones buried ' deep in the
v,.,alls of the American Em-
l : sy in Moscow.
Ranking officials h e r r_
termed the dramatic dis
covery of t h es e listening
.devices the "worst and most
extensive" penetration of
American security behind
the Iron Curtain.
U.S. Ambassador Foy!
Kohler delivered to the So-;
v i e t Foreign Ministry ai
strong formal protest. It was
understood the note not only
announced what U.S. secur-
ity officers had uncovered,
abut protested the listening
]devices as a gross violation
of normal diplomatic prac-,
.tice.
Security Review
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;been in place since 1952 o
1953, The United States too
Lover the ` embassy ' in May
:1953
The disclosure prom rte
an ? - extensive review both
{here and 'in Moscow to de-
termine whether any sensi-
tive information affecting
the national security of this
country had fallen into Rus-!
Sian hands. I,
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Lnited, States Tuesday an- Itnonth. a network bf micr
nouilded the. discovery of l j'ho:les has been found deep
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