-Caveat Lector- [This has some pretty bizarre stuff in it, e.g., "airborne microphones," "slivers of metal and fiber optics, embedded in window seals and furniture, serve as super sensitive listening devices..." I, for one, would like to know what the technical principles involved in these could be. Any help would be much appreciated. --MS] Full article at: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/spy_thomas.html Trade Secrets America's Cutting-Edge Espionage Techniques at Risk By Pierre Thomas March 24 - Is America's top-secret spy tradecraft still secure? Miniature cameras placed in the headlights of vehicles of known Russian spies, to record their movements. Homing devices, and an extensive system of transmitters, to track them as they traveled throughout New York City. Slivers of metal and fiber optics, embedded in window seals and furniture, to serve as supersensitive listening equipment. Now, these surveillance techniques, among the best practiced by U.S. counterintelligence, may be lost. ABCNEWS has learned that suspected Russian spy Robert Hanssen was in a position to reveal the techniques, called tradecraft, to his Russian and Soviet handlers, when he worked for the FBI in New York from 1985 to 1987. At that time, Hanssen was a counterintelligence agent, supervising a squad targeting Soviet spies in the home town of the United Nations and international finance, the prime domestic location for American espionage efforts against the Russians. "Hanssen would have had access and knowledge of all of the techniques that would be used against the Soviets," said Harry Brandon, who once oversaw the FBI's counterintelligence program. "I would assume everything is gone. Assume the worst," he said. Secrets from the Playbook Among the secrets that Hanssen may have revealed is the location of a supersecret counterintelligence center in New York known as MEGAHUT. That knowledge would allow the Russians to closely monitor undercover FBI operations. He might have also revealed a large scale real estate program maintained by the United States, that bought properties in expensive areas throughout New York City so they could be used for surveillance. Other secrets from the tradecraft playbook include an FBI system for photographing passengers coming in from Russia - to monitor for incoming spies. FBI officials are now reviewing failed covert operations from the period Hanssen was in New York, trying to see if the failures were because their tradecraft playbook had been given to the Russians. But the electronic snooping war continues to evolve, with more sophisticated devices that are increasingly difficult to detect. One new development is the airborne microphone. "Having no metallic content whatsoever makes it immune from X-rays," said surveillance consultant Martin Kaiser. "It makes it immune from known wire detection processes so it's really the ideal microphone." 'Exceptionally Strong' Evidence Meanwhile, a federal judge recently ordered Hanssen to stay in jail on the grounds that the government's evidence against him was "exceptionally strong." Hanssen was arrested Feb. 18, charged with selling secrets to Russia and the Soviet Union since 1985, including the names of double agents and U.S. surveillance methods. The counts against him say he "compromised numerous FBI counterintelligence investigative techniques, sources, methods and operations, and operational practices and activities targeted against" Soviet and Russian agents in the U.S. He faces life in prison or death if convicted. 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