Russia: Spy gadget hailed as 'technological miracle'
Russia’s main KGB successor agency said today that a spy gadget hidden in fake rock allegedly used by a purported British spy ring in Moscow was a highly sophisticated device.
Sergei Ignatchenko, a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, known under its Russian acronym FSB, said that the device intended to help exchange information between agents and their handlers was estimated to cost tens of millions of pounds.
“It’s a space-level technology,” Ignatchenko said in televised remarks, adding that the device retrieved by the FSB from a Moscow street had several degrees of protection.
“This rock can be tossed from the ninth floor, it can remain in water for a long time,” he said.
Russian news reports said that the device could send information to handheld computers at a distance of up to 20 metres in just one or two seconds.
