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TIL 1972 Soviet Union's eavesdropping led to “The Great Grain Robbery” of communications on calls between American wheat farmers and the Department of Agriculture that enabled the Russians to covertly buy record amounts of wheat at low prices, causing a U.S. grain shortage 18 months later.

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