in Viru hotel in the heart of Tallinn's Soviet- times remained unchanged in a secret room in the attic that the KGB used for espionage purposes, said Frank Alexander on the site Der Spiegel .
Palamets Ann, 64 years old, a former technician, now a technical manager of the hotel, which today is part of the Finnish network Sokos, during the Soviet era was one of the few who knew about the existence of room for the obscure metal door, which led to a generally locked stairway with formally, "the top", 22 th floor hotel.
Alexandra Frank
Alexandra Frank
Alexandra Frank
Alexandra Frank
Today, everything in the room looks the same as in 1991 when the KGB hurriedly left the building the author writes: bed on which rested an agent, a broken radio, covered by yellow paper desk, filled with cigarette butts ashtray, two broken phone and an old typewriter.
is believed staff, the room was used to maintain contact with agents in Finland.
"Amazing opening new owners of the hotel done in other parts of the building - the correspondent. - Microphones hidden in the walls of the bar and plates specifically increased thickness, "bugs" in the phone guests, antenna, disguised lights. "
What to do with spying bathroom, owners has not yet been decided. She, however, customers can visit the travel agency East Express, which organizes excursions to the "Soviet duty" of Tallinn. Guests visiting the former headquarters of the KGB in the old town, making the trip in a bus from the Soviet era on the coast of the Gulf, they are locked up in jail and interrogate " в той самой комнате в гостинице Viru.
Источник: Der Spiegel Перевод: inopressa.ru
bugs in the box, microphones in the bar: In Soviet times, was Viru Hotel in Tallinn gespitzelt, much edible import meters. Even today, the house holds under the umbrella of a KGB secret to explore, on interactive tours in the past - including Verhцre.
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