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  2. Covert listening device - Wikipedia

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    A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug or a wire, is usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, called bugging, or wiretapping is a common technique in surveillance, espionage and police investigations. Self-contained electronic covert listening devices came into common use with ...

  3. The Thing (listening device) - Wikipedia

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    The Thing (listening device) The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945.

  4. Countersurveillance - Wikipedia

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    Countersurveillance refers to measures that are usually undertaken by the public to prevent surveillance, [1] including covert surveillance. Countersurveillance may include electronic methods such as technical surveillance counter-measures, which is the process of detecting surveillance devices. It can also include covert listening devices ...

  5. Operation Easy Chair - Wikipedia

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    Operation Easy Chair. Operation Easy Chair was a joint covert operation of the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Dutch Internal Security Service (BVD), and the Dutch Radar Laboratory (NRP) from 1958-1962. The goal of the operation was to place a covert listening device in the office of the Russian Ambassador in The Hague. [1]

  6. Wiretapping - Wikipedia

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    Wiretapping. Wiretapping, also known as wire tapping or telephone tapping, is the monitoring of telephone and Internet -based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on an analog telephone or telegraph line.

  7. Ukraine’s military chief says one of his offices was bugged ...

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    Ukraine’s military chief said Monday that a covert listening device was found in one of the offices where he works, and hinted without elaborating that bugs were detected in other locations.

  8. Man who stabbed housemate to death after spying on her ... - AOL

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    A “spy plug” covert listening device was also found on a shelf in the defendant’s bedroom. On December 8, the defendant allegedly used the name Jamie Oliver to message Ms Hansen’s ...

  9. Surveillance - Wikipedia

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    Surveillance is used by citizens, for instance for protecting their neighborhoods. It is widely used by governments for intelligence gathering, including espionage, prevention of crime, the protection of a process, person, group or object, or the investigation of crime. It is also used by criminal organizations to plan and commit crimes, and by ...

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