>Do you test it
Who's saying it's a test?
Your premise assumes they haven't already done A and B, and after successful testing moved on to C.
Who's saying it's a test?
Your premise assumes they haven't already done A and B, and after successful testing moved on to C.
"Sir, the results are in: this weapon causes mild headaches and sleep difficulties lasting a few months."
"Excellent! Deploy it against American embassies immediately. Surely this will absolutely cripple their espionage efforts."
The idea that it's a side-effect of directed- energy _surveillance_ seems a vastly more sensible hypothesis in every way.
You don't think people are actively monitoring the electromagnetic spectrum, in a US embassy?
Why in the world do you think that?
The notion that they would direct something at those devices to activate them is neither fantastical or foolish to investigate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
Invented by THE theremin. Yes, the instrument, theremin, the wacky one where handwaves and suck around some metal stick make funky horror movie noises, there was a Dr. theremin who invented that, and also this. Anyway, it was a "passive radio device" (given as a "gift") whereby if radio waves are projected onto the device it shall convolute said waves with sound waves of the room and then back-project a signal of radio waves with voice data overlayed, which can be read. Fancy at that sounds it is trivially low tech and simple. Very analog.
They don't tell you what equipment is on the roof.