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After setting up a listening post, the Soviet Union quickly expanded its military forces in and around the island nation.
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Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Surveillance footage and other data continued to flow to Israeli listening posts.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
Those adaptations may include complex abilities to think and work together—like using hilltops as intelligence-gathering listening posts.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
The Central Intelligence Agency’s spies, the National Security Agency’s listening posts, and the nation’s reconnaissance satellites gather secrets for it, while Washington’s enemies send undercover agents to try to unearth its classified content.
—David Priess, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2016
The rival governments have also established new listening posts and secret intelligence-sharing agreements with other governments.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
The Soviet Union maintained a listening post, seen here, in Lourdes, Cuba, from 1962 to 1991.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Still, China will almost certainly send troops to protect the listening post, as much from the prying eyes of Cubans as from the United States.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Asteroid City is set at the dawn of the space age, in a mid-1950s American desert town built around an impact crater that doubles as a listening post to the stars.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2023
Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Surveillance footage and other data continued to flow to Israeli listening posts.
—Joby Warrick, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
Those adaptations may include complex abilities to think and work together—like using hilltops as intelligence-gathering listening posts.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
The Central Intelligence Agency’s spies, the National Security Agency’s listening posts, and the nation’s reconnaissance satellites gather secrets for it, while Washington’s enemies send undercover agents to try to unearth its classified content.
—David Priess, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2016
The rival governments have also established new listening posts and secret intelligence-sharing agreements with other governments.
—Edward Wong, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
The Soviet Union maintained a listening post, seen here, in Lourdes, Cuba, from 1962 to 1991.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Still, China will almost certainly send troops to protect the listening post, as much from the prying eyes of Cubans as from the United States.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
Asteroid City is set at the dawn of the space age, in a mid-1950s American desert town built around an impact crater that doubles as a listening post to the stars.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 June 2023
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“Listening post.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/listening%20post. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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