This Russian electronic genius living here in the U.S. demonstrating and selling his Theramin used his access for espionage we later learned. RCA eventually built and sold Theramins and L'eon eventually went back to Russia. He apparently got too much exposure to capitalism and it earned him a stay in a Gulag .
No good deed goes unpunished in Russia it seems .
One of his most unusual inventions was dubbed "the thing" and one was secreted in a carving of the Great Seal of the United States presented to our Ambassador in Moscow. It collected intel for years before it was discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin
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