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what was the thing the Cold War this episode is brought to you by dashlane on august 4th 1945 a group of russian schoolchildren from the vladimir lenin all-union pioneer organization presented a two-foot wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to the US ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman believing it to be a mere friendly gesture of friendship between the USSR in the USA as allies in world war ii the Great Seal was hung up proudly on the wall of the ambassador's residential study in the library at the residency Spaso house in moscow what the Americans didn't know was that this gift was holding a secret this gift was not merely decorative the Soviets had placed a high-frequency radio bug inside this listening device dubbed the thing enabled the Soviets to eavesdrop on confidential conversations of the US ambassador surprisingly the bug worked without batteries