In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organisation (sort of a Soviet scouting group) presented a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Averell Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The gift, a gesture of friendship to the USSR’s World War II ally, was hung in the…
Source: How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. for 7 Years | Atlas Obscura
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Well done to the Soviets, but hard to believe that the Americans actually hung this on the wall without checking it! If only such ingenuity had been applied in the cause of world peace instead.
Best wishes, Pete.
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