In 1945, a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for seven years before discovering it contained a listening device.

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DarkAngel900 on April 16th, 2021 at 08:50 UTC »

"The Trojan Seal"

Wheresthelambsauce__ on April 16th, 2021 at 09:46 UTC »

Very impressive technical achievement, considering it had no direct power supply and was so reliable due to its simplicity, and hard to detect too.

bas1ian on April 16th, 2021 at 09:56 UTC »

It’s currently on show at the SPY Museum in DC, very neet. They hid the listening device in the beak