reinforcement in the flooring should have been. they found resonating devices that allowed the russians to monitor electronic and verbal communications. one engineer who worked on the site from 1980 to 1982 said, quote, we found things that didn t belong there, based on the shop drawings. we found cables in the concrete. and it wasn t like some low-level hack job. it was very sophisticated. ron kessler from the washington post later wrote a book that touched on this subject, a book called moscow station. he explained in his book how some of the bugs the russians put in in the construction process were found in places where metal beams were welded together and they would make the bugs out of materials that had the same density as the metal in the joint, so even if you did x-ray that joint, you wouldn t detect them. so, the u.s. government negotiated for that building in 69, started build it in 79. by the early 80s, they d gotten rock climbers to be rappelling down the outside of
monitor electronic and verbal communications. one engineer who worked on the site from 1980 to 1982 said, quote, we found things that didn t belong there, based on the shop drawings. we found cables in the concrete. and it wasn t like some low-level hack job. it was very sophisticated. ron kessler from the washington post later wrote a book that touched on this subject, a book called moscow station. he explained in his book how some of the bugs the russians put in in the construction process were found in places where metal beams were welded together and they would make the bugs out of materials that had the same density as the metal in the joint, so even if you did x-ray that joint, you wouldn t detect them. so, the u.s. government negotiated for that building in 69, started build it in 79. by the early 80s, they d gotten rock climbers to be rebelling down the outside of the building in the dead of night saying, uh-uh, this place is intrinsically bugged. by 1985, they stopped w