The World - News from April 7, 1985
Soviet intelligence agencies secretly bugged communications equipment at the French Embassy in Moscow for more than five years, according to a report published in the French news magazine Le Point. Citing a secret report by the External Relations Ministry, the magazine said the Soviets placed the electronic bugs on six teleprinters in late 1976 and were detected in January, 1983. The report prompted the French expulsion of 47 Soviet diplomats in April, 1983, the magazine said.
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