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Bank officials did not even realize that they had been attacked or what had happened until long after the event.

• In Japan, two yakuza criminals were caught stealing from a Pachinko machine using a hidden high energy RF gun to interfere with the machine’s computer and falsely trigger a win.
• In St. Petersburg, Russia, a criminal robbed a jewelry store by defeating the alarm system with a repetitive RF generator. “Its manufacture was no more complicated than assembling home microwave ovens.”
• In Kizlyar, Dagestan, Russia, Chechen rebel commander Salman Raduyev disabled police radio communications using RF transmitters during a raid.
• In Russia, Chechen rebels used an RFW to defeat a Russian security system and gain access to a controlled area.
• RFWs were used in separate incidents against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to falsely set off alarms and to induce a fire in a sensitive area.

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