Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: U.S. Embassy still jammed Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 16:56:27 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;SPECIAL REPORT \HD U.S. Embassy still jammed \BY Bill Gertz \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES \DT MOSCOW MOSCOW - Despite the demise of the Soviet Union and the apparent end of the Cold War, the Russian government is continuing to bombard the U.S. Embassy with microwave radiation, according to U.S. officials here. The microwave radiation is being directed at the upper sections of the Stalin-era embassy building in an apparent effort to counter U.S. secret operations, primarily electronic eavesdropping, said officials familiar with CIA reports of the activity. The microwave emanations originate from a residential building across the street that is believed to be staffed by Russian security officials, said the U.S. sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Secret activities by the State Department, the CIA and military officials now are conducted in cramped quarters on the uppermost floors of the 10-story embassy building. "Embassy personnel have been squeezed into facilities in which classified business is difficult, if not impossible, to conduct," one official said. Secure facilities have been shielded from the microwaves by special panels that cover windows and walls. Other offices contain shields over windows. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy declined to comment on the microwave bombardment. The radiation was first detected in the 1960s, and the State Department conducted a number of tests in the 1970s in response to complaints by embassy personnel that some were experiencing ill effects. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM