Up in EARLY MORNING to go into town where I was invited as a guest to attend an exciting workshop which dealt with American intelligence, the Cold War and espionage. In the picture above, it is Johan Öhgren showing up a musical instrument called the theremin, an electronic monster that he also tried to play on.
The instrument was invented by Russian scientist Leon Termin who also was behind a brilliant interception apparatus in 1945 was placed on the U.S. embassy in Moscow by the Russians. And it was on this as Johan Öhgren really told. Russians microphone caught everything that was said in the ambassador's room and it took a long time - and by chance help - before the Americans could find it. The set is located in a shield with the U.S. national coat of arms that Russian young people had given to the embassy July 4, 1945.
Now NSA has a slightly different date of this event. But still read their story HERE. It is fascinating.
I sat with and listened to several interesting stories of espionage and intelligence from the clock 11 to 17 when I had to go to work. Much of what was told was directly astounding and the itch in my journalistic fingers to try to do something with this. But until further notice, the rest.
One of those who spoke was my former colleague from the politics department at DN Kaa Eneberg who gave a fascinating presentation on his work with the so-called Russian Migration to Karelia in 1920 - and 30-century. An exodus of saved Communists to "the promised land to the east." But many of them were executed, many more were working and living under very harsh conditions.
As I said good day with many pleasant reunions and new good contacts.
At work, it became a normal evening even if I took the opportunity to take a picture of Venus and the moon on the way back to the job of the seminar. You can read the article HERE. There is also a new comet that is coming and that may be visible to the naked eye in February.
And then Boliden over Skåne January 17 proved that it was not at all over Skåne. A Danish astronomer has calculated that its orbit rather went over the Baltic Sea. Read the article HERE.
