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The inventor Léon Theremin, of the musical instrument fame, worked for the KGB on listening devices. “The Thing”, disguised as a plaque, hanged in the office of the U.S. ambassador and was accidentally discovered in 1952. Do we know the fallout of this incident and what kind of information leaked?

by /u/LukeInTheSkyWith in /r/AskHistorians

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