On This Day in Telephone History November 25TH 1997 Telephone Technician Arrested as a SPY. 29 year old American telecommunications engineer, Richard Bliss, was charged with espionage by the Russian Federal Security Agency. On an assignment from Qualcomm, he was arrested in Rostov-on-Don and was using a global positioning system to develop a cellular telephone network.

On This Day in Telephone History November 25TH 1997

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On This Day in Telephone History November 25TH 1997 Telephone Technician Arrested as a SPY. 29 year old American telecommunications engineer, Richard Bliss, was charged with espionage by the Russian Federal Security Agency. On an assignment from Qualcomm, he was arrested in Rostov-on-Don and was using a global positioning system to develop a cellular telephone network.