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Tree Stump Listening Device

1970s, CIA

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This solar powered concealment device was used to intercept radar & communications signals. US intelligence designed the device to look like a tree stump and then planted it in a wooded area near Moscow. Why? A bug inside eavesdropped on radar and communications from a nearby Soviet airbase.

Communication Device/Surveillance
Concealment Devices