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Today’s posting on “Microwave Diplomacy: 1967-1977” includes a number of noteworthy records, published here for the first time. Among them:Ĭorrespondence between President Gerald Ford and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev: “These transmissions have created levels of radiation within the Embassy which may, in the opinion of our medical authorities, represent a hazard to the health of the American families living and working in that building,” Ford wrote to the Soviet premier in December 1975. The microwave transmissions, believed to be related to bugging devices hidden in the Embassy walls, continued for decades after they were first detected when the U.S. efforts to press Soviet leaders to halt the radiation activity began in 1967 and continued under four administrations into the Carter era. Transcripts of Kissinger’s calls to Dobrynin, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the National Security Archive, are among a special collection of documents posted today on the “Moscow Signal” scandal-recording years of secret diplomacy to press the Soviets to terminate the daily microwave transmissions directed at the U.S. 'We will catch hell unless we can say something is happening” to stop it. “We really are sitting on it here but too many people know about it,” Kissinger said. Embassy building for over a decade threatened to become a major scandal in U.S.-Soviet relations. “That beam you are beaming into our Embassy in Moscow… Maybe you could turn it off until I get there.” Amid diplomatic banter about how the Soviets “could give me a radiation treatment,” Kissinger issued a clear warning: the microwave radiation that the Soviets had been aiming daily at the U.S. “I want to talk to you about the signal,” Kissinger told Dobrynin. Washington D.C., SeptemOn December 9, 1975, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepared to travel to Moscow for arms control talks, he placed an urgent phone call to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in Washington. FOIA Advisory Committee Oversight Reports.The fact that all this wild surveillance is technically possible lends no credence to President Trump's unproven claims about wiretapping, but it is a worthwhile reminder: You are surrounded by digital eyes and ears. There's a reason people like Mark Zuckerberg keep a piece of tape over theirs.Ĭonway fumbled by naming one of the few appliances that probably doesn't have any form of spying capability-though, if someone decides that microwaves and toasters and dishwashers need to become 'smart,' they might soon get it. Maybe that video is recorded from the camera built into your laptop computer, for instance.

#MICROWAVE ESPIONAGE SETTING SOFTWARE#

Lipreading software is only getting more and more impressive, and could feasibly decipher conversations from a silent video feed of a sufficiently high quality. Researchers have developed malware that can turn a pair of headphones into a microphone sufficient to eavesdrop on a conversation. The real craziness starts once you move beyond devices that don't even have microphones. It's a process that is alarmingly easy and effective on phones. Even so, such a device certainly could just listen in all the time if it were compromised.

#MICROWAVE ESPIONAGE SETTING TRIAL#

An Amazon Echo is poised to play a role in a murder trial where investigators think it may retained pertinent recordings, though whether it even has those records remains to be seen. Companies like Apple and Google routinely insist these gadgets only listen for trigger words and ignore everything else, but the microphone is definitely on regardless. The extent to which this sort of audio is saved or shared is unclear.

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