European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Locate eavesdropping equipment but before they Couke do it to guard got cold get to Gorlod Sheplan and was sent Homo a British official who would nol be quoted by name said Britain does not Send Young marines to guard the British embassy which is just across the Moscow Revor ram to Kremlin we Send solid married men of Over 45," he said. Even Neutral Switzerland has bugging problems in Moscow. The Swiss government responding to a parliamentary question feb. 17. Said. As has been the Case with embassies of other countries listening devices have been repeatedly discovered and removed since the 1950s in Swiss missions. Depending on he Way they Are installed such inf Ablations can be located Only with considerable difficulty and by Means of profound modification of the Structure of a  most Western embassies like the . Embassy until recently employ soviet citizens hired through a soviet government Agency and Many Are assumed to pass along information to the Kab. The employees include secretaries. Interpreters Domestic help and chauffeurs frequently including the ambassador s Driver. The american scandal has undoubtedly led other Western embassies in Moscow to lighten Security one of the concerns of . Allies is that confidential information shared with the americans might have come into the hands of the russians. Moscow based. Ambassadors of nato countries frequently meet to Exchange information on defense issues. Paradoxically espionage activity Seldom has Long term effects on Overall relations. When spying is exposed victimized countries often appear on the verge of an open break but this rarely if Ever happens. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and soviet. Leader Mikhail 8, Gorbachev met in Moscow at the end of March and by All accounts got along famously. They seemed to have completely forgotten that in september 1985, Britain threw out 31 soviets accused of spying and the soviet Union responded in Hind. Anti Dent it attn lot test Dichtl it in fun t�titd$191 million . Pm Twity in to cow will in torn Down it h pm not to pro Lufi Pho used in the surveillance War by Harry of Flo Simthal associated press he United states is using world War ii equipment to fight a surveillance War such As the one going on with the new . Embassy in Moscow says a Security expert familiar with the ways nations eavesdrop on one another. People ought to be aware that when we talk about the few Marine i Erinn Border of the soviet Ukraine and Poland an area in which the red army would be Likely to mass before any crackdown on the polish Solidarity movement Holbrook Tell Moscow abruptly alter his return from the Border and on feb. 20, the soviet news Agency Tass reported he had been found in his hotel room having sexual Intercourse with an unidentified soviet woman. Embassy officials later accused the soviets at trying to blackmail Holbrook and Washington sources said he apparently had been drugged Holbrook was reassigned id Washington but not to his anticipated Post As military aide to vice president George Bush Western diplomats journalists and businessmen m Moscow live in apartment compounds guarded by uniformed soviet guards surrounded by Walls and huge crowds of intelligence and counterintelligence people who Are working hard to recruit them said Stanislav Levchenko. A Kab lieutenant who defected to the West in 1979. Costa in a Telephone interview and Levchenko in a recent television interview estimated that about Hall tha soviet employees at any Western embassy Are full time Kab operatives and the rest cooperate. The Kab bugs the Homes and offices of westerners and can spot a shaky marriage an alcohol problem someone with a big ego or someone who looks too often at a pretty girl s  said westerners Are told that the soviets working in the embassy Are Kab. But they meet a Nice girl who is not a Hooker who flirts with them and they begin to think that the Security officers Are paranoid Costa added. Sometimes there is a genuine attraction on the part of the girl but the first Lime she has a Date the Kab knows about it and they work from  cleaning up that building we Are not lathing about faking out a few bugs or transmitters said William shared of pcs inc. In port Chester , the use of transmitters is a 30 Carold surveillance process. We be gone Way beyond  modern methods he said include lasers that read voice caused vibrations of window Glass no matter How thick and intercepts using fiber optics. We suspect that Given the fiber optic techniques in surveillance it is possible to mount into the mortar of buildings filaments or Reeds of fiber optics that Are capable of intercepting conversations within the building he said. They can be embedded in mortar or plaster. It might even include embedding in laments in the paint of the room itself he said. Basically ii can transmit without leaving telltale radio frequency signals and therefore becomes  Sharek is product manager of pcs which he says is among the largest Security and counter surveillance companies in the world. The firm s clients include countries other than the United slates that want Security sweeps of their embassies. Congress effectively outlawed the surveillance Industry in 1968, a year after the supreme court ruled that wiretapping constituted an illegal search under the fourth amendment Sharek said and that slopped advances in detection in the United Stales. A said he can Only guess at How far the technology has advanced in the soviet Union because of what his company has found in other embassies overseas. If we Don t know 50 percent about fiber optics surveillance techniques we Don t know what mix they Are using we Are Only playing guessing games at this Point about How much the soviets have infiltrated or impregnated Tho  americans he said have been limited in our capacity to develop counter surveillance techniques. It is still in our mentality to say we want to clean up transmitters clean up of radio frequency  president Reagan has said that the unfinished $191 million . Embassy in Moscow will be torn Down if it cannot be protected from eavesdropping. Even if the building is torn Down it s going to Lake Strong thinking on the part of the United states said Sharek. Reconstruction is going to have to be supervised or Well have to be willing to accept an 85 percent cleanup Job. Given the fact that we Are using world War ii tools to clean up a can Only counter a certain percentage of the surveillance that is going to be installed at the .  he said he assumes the soviets use a mix of surveillance techniques including transmitters wiretaps laser intercepts fiber optic intercepts and microwave. That laser intercept records vibrations in Glass caused by sound Waves. The United Stales embassy he said countered thai several years ago by installing artificial vibration devices. Nobody is going to stand still without coming up with a counter measure said Sharek. We assume the soviets have adopted new techniques that can literally take words that come through the Glass. Using computer technology a conversation can be reconstructed using one word out of five or one out of 10." a building is a living breathing creature he said. Ii has incorporated into it multiple cells in effect multiple ears. A sweep is definitely not going to handle All the intercept devices that might be implanted. The Only other alternative is to tear it Down and even if you build in up again somebody is going to put surveillance devices into in because we Are not allowed to have our own workmen do  All embassies Sharek said have Saleroom " that has been part of embassy policy since the 1950s or 1 960s, but you Are talking again about 20-year-old technology he said. Even if you Caps ulate the entire building you Are defeating Trie purpose o the embassy which is to interact with people. There is no guarantee a cocoon overs building is going to solve the problem " sunday april 19, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17