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>As he did this, the signal cut out. Bezjian realized that the bug wasn’t in the wall but in the seal, and took his hammer to the Soviets’ gift.

I wonder if it would have made more sense to leave the device unharmed and take advantage of it to plant false intelligence on the Soviets?

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I'm pretty sure the signal cut out because the Soviets feeding it energy realized we were on to it, the guys weren't hammer the seal with the device when it cut out. Unlikely we'd not finish the job in discovering it, but that was the least worst thing they could do at that point.

I think that the device's novelty made it worth studying how to replicate or detect it at large.

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