What is "eavesdropped"

Usage examples of "eavesdropped".

Others eavesdropped on tactical communications by both North Vietnamese and Laotian Communist forces.

As the floe migrated through the Arctic Sea, like a ghost ship adrift and lost, the polar spies used advanced acoustical equipment to detect hostile subs, while special antennas and receivers eavesdropped on the other side.

Also, when truce negotiations began in July 1951, ASA units eavesdropped on meetings among the North Korean negotiating team.

American intercept operators in Turkey had eavesdropped on Soviet radar installations as they tracked the occasional U-2 overflight.

As Cuban air force and other military units converged on the area, NSA voice-intercept operators eavesdropped on the desperate pleas of the exiles.

Vint Hill Farms Station eavesdropped on those diplomatic facilities that used their own high-frequency equipment to communicate.

Others would fly aboard EP-3B ferret aircraft that eavesdropped near the massive Soviet port of Vladivostok and elsewhere.

At Karavas, about fifty Soviet and Slavic linguists eavesdropped on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

African coasts, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Russian linguists eavesdropped on a continent in chaos, tearing itself away from its old colonial bosses only to come under the violent domination of new Cold War masters.

Lined up along the bulkheads, they pounded away on typewriters and flipped tape recorders on and off as they eavesdropped on the sounds of war.

At the same time, NSA should be required to make all transcripts available from the EC-121 and any other platform that eavesdropped on the eastern Mediterranean on June 8, 1967.

During 1967, Comsec operators eavesdropped on 6,606,539 radio-telephone conversations and more than 500,000 conventional telephone calls.

She also eavesdropped on communications in and out of the South Korean Embassy in Ottawa.

NSA had collected economic intelligence, but the agency had not specifically eavesdropped on particular companies for the purpose of industrial espionage.

Signal Security Agency eavesdropped on the San Francisco conference that led to the United Nations, American signals intelligence specialists were preparing to bug another conference.