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The KGB got lots of useful intelligence, not from spies, but from bugs in Moscow’s US embassy. 144 of them! Photo: A micro-bug (Credit: Eric Gaillard/AFP/Getty Images)
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The KGB got lots of useful intelligence, not from spies, but from bugs in Moscow’s US embassy. 144 of them! Photo: A micro-bug (Credit: Eric Gaillard/AFP/Getty Images)
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