The Great Seal Bug: When The Soviets Planted A Bug in the Heart of the US Ambassador’s Residence

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In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (a Soviet scouting group) presented a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Averell Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The gift was meant as a gesture of friendship to the USSR’s World War […]