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.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100160121-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: March 4, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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: _ '
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/03 :CIA-RDP90-009658000100160121-3