SOVIET AGENTS SPIED ON THE AMERICAN EMBASSY UNDETECTED In 1945, Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of the US and the Soviet Union. A hand-carved wooden ...

Averell Harriman, accepted the gift of a large hand-carved Great Seal of the United States from the Soviets for our new Moscow Embassy. Later (much, much later), the seal was found to contain a ...