BUBBLE, BUBBLE...: TO PROTECT THE EMBASSY STAFF FROM ELECTRONIC SNOOPERS, SENSITVE U.S. MISSIONS ABROAD ARE EQUIPPED WITH BUGPROOF CONVERSATION BUBBLES, POD-LIKE CHAMBERS OF ALUMINUM OR PLASTIC PLACED INSIDE BIGGER ROOMS.
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CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160121-3
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December 22, 2016
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January 3, 2012
Sequence Number:
121
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Publication Date:
March 4, 1981
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Bubble, Bubble ...: ' To protect
the .embassy staff .from electronic
snoopers, sensitive U.S. mi9sions
.abroad are equipped with bugproof
conversation "bubbles," pod-like
chambers of aluminum.. or':plastic
placed inside bigger rooms...... ~:
The inner chamber is suspeii_ded a
few < inches off the floor so n6 wires
can go in or out undetected. The out-
er room has noise. generators or wind
machines to smother any sounds that
might escape the inner bubble. ~- .
A former diplomat told my .reporter'
Allen Myerson that the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran- had a bubble that looked.
like a space shuttle. It was big enough
to hold .the- ambassador's deify- staff
meeting, safe from the -Prying ears of
the shah and his secret police: _ '
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