Never trust 1940s Soviet Russia
Alright, this one is beyond hilarious. Apparently, a group of Russian students gifted a carved US seal to a US ambassador. Because it came from children, there’d be no harm in accepting it right? You can totally trust Soviet Russia who would never engage in a proxy war immediately after WW2, right?
It turns out that you can’t. You see, the people who created the seal also implanted a listening device inside of it. It took about seven years before anyone thought to crack the seal open and check. Who knows what national secrets the microphone picked up during its 84 months hanging on a wall?