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Surveillance

Symbolic cutaway of a wired listening capsule beneath a floorboard with a shadowed Georgian house behind, illustrating Farm Hall surveillance rather than an exact microphone installation.

Case file 015Power & Secrets

Captives of the Atomic Age

Ten German scientists heard the Hiroshima news inside a bugged English house, exposing rival explanations for their failure to build an atomic bomb.

An angular red electric typewriter with a typing ball and a concealed component in its lower housing

Case file 008Power & Secrets

The Typewriter Was Listening

An extra coil inside an American embassy typewriter exposed Soviet bugs that could betray documents before the words ever reached a cipher.