[Milsurplus] Russian equipment-KGB espionage-etc.

[aGEnuine Ham]

I suspect many of the inhabitants of this reflector have been
concentrating on radios and may have no more than a superficial exposure
to the espionage business.  In any event, from this side of the pond, I
believe everyone knows how badly the US needed information on what
electronics was being designed, fabricated and deployed in the old Soviet
Union, particularly during the "Cold War" period, and mounted many heroic
measures to collect this information.  The other side of the coin was
that the US as an open society, was much leakier than the USSR when it
came to examples of new electronic equipment.  So, there are documented
examples of the acquisition of many pieces of equipment and technology,
starting with the Manhattan project if you will, by the KGB for their
masters.  Now whether the design and production of any equipment in the
USSR was actually influenced by these examples, I am unable to say.  If
it were aircraft, there are lots of documented examples, but I'm not
cognizant of any rigorous research which has tied a specific USSR
electronics design to a US predecessor.

73,
George
W5VPQ

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