WIFI rock spys on Russia

["Jon O." <jono () networkcommand com>]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/23/uk.russia.row/index.html

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russia's internal security service has accused four British Embassy employees of conducting a 
high-tech spying operation that included using an "advanced electronic spy gadget" in a fake rock, news agencies 
reported.

"An electronic cache from the British intelligence service was seized by counterintelligence," Interfax quoted Federal 
Security Service (FSB) chief spokesman Sergei Ignatchenko as saying Monday.

Interfax reported that the FSB had found the "spy gadget" installed inside the fake rock and that the British agents 
used it to reach their Russian contacts.

The FSB found a second such gadget and said the British had retrieved another, the Russian news agency reported. 
Interfax said a Russian citizen had been detained and had confessed to espionage.

...

Hidden camera footage

According to the program broadcast by Rossiya television, Russian intelligence officers said they had uncovered an 
operation in which British agents allegedly downloaded data to and from a transmitter embedded in a fake rock.

The program said four British officials and at least one Russian informant downloaded classified data to and from the 
transmitter onto handheld computers. One Russian citizen, allegedly recruited by British agents, was later arrested, 
the program reported.

Hidden camera footage appeared to show individuals walking up to the rock by the side of a Moscow street, according to 
media reports. One man was seen on camera carrying the rock away. The rock appears to be about the size of a thick book.

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