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Perlasca was led to believe the Vatican prosecutors had bugged the table and were recording their conversation, though no recording has materialized.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2022

He met with James A. Baker III, the United States secretary of state, and even gave Robert S. Strauss, the American ambassador, 70 pages of detailed schematics showing how the Soviets had bugged the U.S.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2022

There, Rachel’s Mercedes — which he had bugged with a tracking device that detectives found afterward, according to a police report — stood empty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2020

A previous version of this review incorrectly said that author Thomas Rid wrote that the claim that the NSA had bugged Angela Merkel’s cell phone was “apparently false.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2020

About half of the Vigilantes, businessmen who belonged to one or another of the volunteer companies had bugged out for their fire stations already.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam