Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stock-picking bug has even bitten people who would ordinarily take no pleasure in studying price-earnings ratios and balance sheets. "It's so simple, it's insane. If you do this carefully, it's like picking money off trees," declares Michael Petryni, a Los Angeles screenwriter, sounding more like a TV pitchman. But behind the scenes, Petryni spends at least two hours a day studying financial papers like Investor's Daily and following stock quotes using the same computer terminal on which he writes his scripts...
...anything. Lonetree is still charged with passing secret documents and the names of U.S. intelligence officers to the Soviets. Others face courts-martial on less serious matters. But the most stunning charges of spying inside the Moscow embassy have been dropped for lack of evidence. Indeed, no Soviet bug has yet been found anywhere in the current embassy, and there is growing concern that the military may have either blown the investigation or blown it out of proportion or both. Says a ranking U.S. diplomat familiar with the case: "The charge that KGB agents were being led around the embassy...
Compared with the average bug, which goes from birth to death in less than a year, the 17-year cicada is Methuselah: it has the longest life cycle of any known insect. In all, there are twelve distinct broods of 17-year cicadas, each of which emerges in a different year. This year's group is referred to by scientists as Brood 10. The other large group, Brood 14, is due to make its next appearance...
...million on it." That is how much the Pentagon, State Department, CIA and % National Security Agency will request from Congress to replace the compromised communications facilities and pursue other corrective measures. Meanwhile, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recommended by a 15-to-0 vote to tear down the bug-riddled chancery at the new U.S. embassy in Moscow. Said Committee Chairman David Boren: "Demolish that building while we still can." Building a new one would cost an estimated $23 million more...
...only thing to do is raze it and start over again with materials prefabricated in the U.S. "Putting up the building has just got to be a bugger's dream," says one expert. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building, which has apparently been sown with sophisticated bugs that have so far proved impossible to find...