Federal authorities have ordered the expulsion of a Russian diplomat suspected of monitoring the device.
Russian diplomat is expelled for spying.
Nearby was his car, in which agents found equipment apparently used to monitor the listening device planted within a seventh-floor conference room of the building, officials said. The conference room belongs to the bureau of Oceans and International Environmental Scientific Affairs. It is located on the opposite side of the building from the executive offices. Today, the wooden door to the room was locked, and the hallway nearby was quiet. The conference room is within a few steps of the office of Newly Independent States, which covers Russia, and the office of Special Middle East Coordinator Dennis Ross, as well as the Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs.