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SHIFTHEADS: The Spy in the Gift Bag: A Former CSIS Officer on China, Coins, and Carved Eagles
Spy gifts aren't a conspiracy theory. A coin, a carved eagle, or a lanyard can all carry tracking devices.
The White House delegation to China reportedly kept all received gifts separate rather than bringing them home. Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS senior intelligence officer, calls it a good counterintelligence reflex. His preference: examine the gifts rather than discard them, because a captured device is an intelligence opportunity. Russian intelligence once planted a listening device inside a carved wooden eagle gifted to the American ambassador and listened to every conversation…
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