tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3974461349982431321.post3126354124259044448..comments2023-10-31T19:43:20.728+05:30Comments on The NSIT Quiz Club: The guy with the toolAbhimanyuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13247896530657701642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3974461349982431321.post-75686599975573459832011-07-17T15:15:22.295+05:302011-07-17T15:15:22.295+05:30During a debate over the shooting down of an Ameri...During a debate over the shooting down of an American U-2 spy plane over Soviet territory on May 20th 1960, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jnr. decided to go on the offensive.<br />He accused the Soviet Union of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving of the Great Seal of the United States, which had been presented to the U.S. embassy in Moscow by the Soviet-American Friendship Society.<br />He extracted a tiny microphone out of the eagle’s beak with a pair of tweezers, as Soviet Foreign Minister Andrey Gromyko smiles with amusement and mockery behind Lodge.<br />“It so happens that I have here today a concrete example of Soviet espionage so that you can see for yourself,” he announced triumphantly. The Soviet resolution condemning the U.S. spy flights was subsequently defeated.indianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00690546538757349848noreply@blogger.com