THE FBI HAD BORER A TUNNEL OF LISTENING UNDER RUSSIAN EMBASSY A
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WASHINGTON, March 5.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Nikolai Vlassov).
Representants of the secret service americains think that the agent of
the FBI Robert Hanssen, arrete recently to have during 15 years spy on
behalf of the USSR and of Russia, had informs Moscow of the boring of
a tunnel of listening under new the siege of the embassy of Sovietique
Union, then of Russia, has Washington.  It is what has advertisement
the chains of being referant television CNN has informees sources.

According to information's which has ete confirm by official
personalities americaines under reserve of anonymity, the tunnel was
intends has to listen to telecommunications and the conversations
which had place has the interior of the diplomatic representation
implantee which occurred of Wisconsin.  Its digging had starts in the
Eighties and it had ete put in servise only at the middle of the
Nineties.  One is unaware of however how long it has ete uses and if
it is it always.

Taking share has an emission diffusee Sunday by chains CNN, the
vice-president of the United States, Dick Cheney, east refuses has to
comment on this information.  " If such an operation had actually
taken place, it would have me ete impossible to speak about it ", has
it underlines.

According to information's provided by the sources, the secret service
americains also supposes that Robert Hanssen also has revele jointly
has Moscow the existence of an operation menee by the CIA (Exchange
Agency Intelligence) and the Agency of national security (ASN) whose
objective was to place devices of listening in the sites strategic has
the foreigner.

It is the daily newspaper " New York times " which it first A revele
Sunday the existence of the tunnel.  Referant itself has anonymous
sources in the mediums of the information americain, it has in
particular announces that the tunnel " was uses joint by the FBI
(Federal Office of Investigation) and the ASN which answers of the
information radiotechnology, and constituted an element of the
measurements more largely taken by the United States in order to
listen and to supervise the Soviet establishments and, thereafter,
Russian and their personnel working in the United States ".

According to the newspaper, the construction of the tunnel has coOete
" several hundreds of million dollars " and never constitutes the
onereuse "operation of information " realisee by the United States.

The " New York times " also has releve that work took place whereas
the leaders americains showed with cynicism the Soviet autorites to
place devices of listening in the new embassy of the United States has
Moscow.  At the time, the head of the FSB Bakatine had adopted to some
extent the same attitude that Hanssen by revelant in Americains the
places or of the systems of listening had ete lay out and this without
having ete less world inquiete by the justice of its country.