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Word: subvault (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
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Usage:

...able to help the KGB learn the combination to the vaultlike front door of the PCC. But once inside, Soviet operatives would have been faced with several locked doors, one of which led to the CIA's area: that would have been the target. Inside that room was a subvault that housed the CIA's printers, communications and coding machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...determine that those devices reflected no evidence of penetration. The alarms for the main State Department vault and the CIA area had never gone off on the same night -- as would be expected if someone had entered the PCC, walked through the main room and entered the CIA subvault. Although there were some anomalies in the records for various monitors (for example, the door counter sometimes registered twice if the door was slammed hard), these never matched up with one another in any meaningful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moscow Bug Hunt | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

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