The hidden microphones Stalin used to shape the rebuilding of post-war Europe (Bugged FDR!)JOSEPH Stalin was not a man to leave anything to chance. Years of eliminating his opponents and protecting himself from potential challengers had instilled a keen sense of self-preservation in the Soviet dictator and bred, as poker players put it, an unwillingness to ever "give a sucker an even break". One of those suckers, it turns out, was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the United States president. A new study has revealed in devastating detail how Stalin bugged FDR’s quarters during the 1945 conference at Yalta that determined the...