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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) v BY BUD GORDON: : News staff writer U jturized electronic devices using tiny transistors instead of tubes {Mount Clipping In Space Below} Tiny, sensitive ‘bugs’ m “treasured privacy ‘Privacy — like the whooping|has brought the wiretapper's art! crane — is fast becoming ex-|within the reach of the ordinary: investigator or espionage agent.i tinct in the U.S. Even in Alabama, the long treasured freedom of secret speech and action is vanishing, exposed by electronic “‘eaves- dropping” devices and super cameras which can take pictures in the dark. Time Magazine recently re- 3 vealed the federal government have coma €9f millian of tala. phone bugging devices « year. Many of these bugs are used by federal officials on their tein eae! own phones to record conver: « Three miniature electronic de-| sations in secrecy. . Vices for monitoring telephone Most expensive among fhe conversations have been found|pi0. is the tiny transmitter. onthe none to pat Some of these are no larger Safety’ Direct AP Li than a lump of sugar and many alety Director Al Lingo. are smallér than a pack of cig- One such device was found arets. last Thursday, attached’ to the telephone wire in a Birmingham Most popular is the simple in- home. Another was located in a|duction coil, which picks up both Birmingham home about three ends of a phone conversation. weeks ago. Still another was lo-) cated on the telephone of Miss Sybil Poole, member of the/bUes can perform their spy- Alabama Public Service Com- chores without being connected mission. to a phone. The only limit io the In all three cases, the de- |Size of the instrument is battery vices were tiny, self powered |Power. Experts predict nuclear short wave radios, capable of [Power will further educe their broadcasting phone conversa- |SiZé. tions several blocks away toa | Atty. Gen. Robert ‘Kennedy wanatvon put a hill heforea Cancroace in Frectiver. @ Ol betore Congress in Ail three devices were ingen- 1962, which would permit feder- jously constructed at a cost frony|al authorities, under orders of $150 to $250. They were cleverly|the Attorney General, to wire-, concealed. ; tap, with a court order. . ALTHOUGH THE state has] In certain situations — such as “a good suspect,” persons wholespionage, subversion, murder, installed these electronic bugs kidnapping, interstate. racketeer- are not known. Tracing the in-|ing and narcotics — wiretapping struments, according to Lingo,|would be legal, and would yield _is almost impossible. legal court evidence. . _(’Manufactured in Miami and) In espionage, the Attorney. San Francisco, the bugs bear no General could sidestep the court, manufacturer's label. A -few,|if he thought asking for a court Lingo said, are being made order would endanger the na- right here in Alabama by skilied|tional interest. - electronic technicians, Under the bill, ‘all other A few years ago, tapping aj forms of wiretapping would be phone wire was a.major project] prohibited and punishable by a A FEW ULTRA-sophisticated , ( ake extinct oaks ae (Indicate page, name of hewspaper, city and siaie,.) PAGE A-38 ntWS BIRMINGHAM 8/16/64 FINAL Edition: Author: Editor: Title: “TINY, SENSI- TIVE ‘BUGS' ’ MAKE TREASURED PRIVACY EXTINCT Character: or a Seated Classification: Submitting Office: Birmingha | Betng Investigated : : beyend_the capabilities of ordi-| $10,000 fine or two years in nary agencies — private or pub-| federal prison. . \ lic. But recent strides in‘minia-! But, the bill has met op . . UT te EM vad wae tee oe E Te ae ees