full-disclosure - RE: Tempest today

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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:32:33 -0500
From: <Bryan_McAninch@...fee.com>
To: <sil@...iltrated.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: RE: Tempest today

Interesting link, thanks. :)

Perhaps Van Eck was the first to research EMR eavesdropping of CRT
screens... ?

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Oquendo [mailto:sil@...iltrated.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 12:09 PM
To: McAninch, Bryan
Cc: tonu@....ee; full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Tempest today

Bryan_McAninch@...fee.com wrote:
> http://the.jhu.edu/upe/websites/Jon_Grover/emr.pdf
>
> Van Eck's research paper has no references pre-1965, which I presumed
he would have used had it available. Can you provide a reference to the
original research from the 1950s?
>
> Thanks. 
>   

/The Ultimate Spy Book/, H. Keith Melton, London, 1996. p. 84.
/[Excerpt]/

THE THING

In the early 1950s, a Soviet listening device was found in the American 
Embassy in Moscow. This came to the attention of the world when it was 
displayed at the United Nations by the American ambassador in May, 1960.

It was a cylindrical metal object that had been hidden inside the wooden

carving of the Great Seal of the United States -- the emblem on the wall

over the ambassador's desk -- which had been presented to him by the 
Soviets.

The Great Seal features a bald eagle, beneath whose beak the Soviets had

drilled holes to allow sound to reach the device. At first, Western 
experts were baffled as to how the device, which became known as The 
Thing (illustration omitted here) worked, because it had no batteries or

electrical circuits. Peter Wright of Britain's MI5 discovered the 
principle by which it operated. MI5 later produced a copy of the device 
(codenamed SATYR) for use by both British and American intelligence.

/How the Thing Worked:/

A radio beam was aimed at the antenna from a source outside the 
building. A sound that struck the diaphragm caused variations in the 
amount of space (and the capacitance) between it and the tuning post 
plaste. These variations altered the charge on the antenna, creating 
modulations in the reflected radio beam. These were picked up and 
interpreted by the receiver.

"How old is Tempest"
http://cryptome.org/tempest-old.htm

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