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The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was the target of the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed by the Soviet Union, suspected of being an electromagnetic weapon. | Landmark | The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was a central site of Cold War espionage, targeted by the Soviet Moscow Signal microwave beam for decades, and subject to repeated KGB penetration attempts that exposed the limits of CIA counterintelligence under James Angleton. |
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow was the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Soviet Union (and later Russia). It became a focal point of Cold War espionage and a significant location in the history of U.S. government investigations into psychic phenomena and electromagnetic warfare.1
From 1956 to 1976, the embassy was subjected to the Moscow Signal, a microwave beam directed at its upper floors by the Soviets. U.S. intelligence suspected this was an electromagnetic weapon designed to influence or degrade the health and behavior of embassy personnel. This led to classified U.S. research programs like Project Pandora to study and counter its effects. Embassy employees experienced various non-specific symptoms, including headaches, inability to concentrate, and fatigue, and later, some died of cancer, raising concerns about the long-term health impacts of the signal.1
In the early 1980s, the construction of a new U.S. Embassy building in Moscow became another intelligence concern. The Central Intelligence Agency received intelligence that the new embassy had been bugged at its core, with sensors embedded deep inside the structural framing materials. Joe McMoneagle, a remote viewer from the Stargate Project, accurately remote-viewed the building, perceiving it to be riddled with thousands of bugs and metallic decoys, including girders welded into antennas. This was later confirmed by a CIA/NSA investigation, revealing a massive Soviet eavesdropping and surveillance program.1
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎