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Yo pp.sso (Rev. 7-16-85) € (Mount Clipping In Space Below) Corse eee tis Tel electronic devices using | tf — is fast becoming e: in the U.S. in Alabama, the Tong! red. freedom of © secret jeech and action is vanishing,’ josed by electronic “eaves-! jing” devices, and super, ae which can. take pictures ithe dark. : RThree miniature electronic de- gees for monitoring telephone ersations have been found MNiabama during the past Bean ace to “Public Safety Director Al Lingo. 4 e was found slephone wire in a Birmingham Another was located in a Birmingham hore about three » weeks ago. Stil! another was Jo- ated on the telephone of Miss Sybil Poole, member of the | ee all three cases, the ae- vices were tiny, self powered short wave radios, capable of roadcasting phone conversa: ‘tons sevesal blocks away to a receiver. EGA three devices were ingen- ‘fously constructed at a cost from’ $150 to $250. They were cleverly’ ‘concealed. ALTHOUGH THE state has, ‘a good suspect,” persons who : installed these electronic bug: ‘are not known. Tracing the in struments, according to Ling “js almost impossible. “ . Manufactured in Miami andj in Francisco, the bugs bear no; “Jabel. A> few] 0 said, are being made) ! iny transistors instead un Rites ae bole tthe’ wiretapper’s ai ‘ithin the reach of the ordinary] linve: stigator or espionage ‘agent, Time Magazine “recently ‘re- vealed the federal government buys some $20 million of tele- | phone bugging devices a ye: Many of these bugs are used by federal officials on their own phones to record conver- sations in secrecy. .< Most expensive among the bugs is the tiny transmitter. Some of these are no larger than a lump of sugar and many jare smialler than @ pack of cig, arets. © Most popular is the simple in- jduction coi}, which picks up both jends ofa hone conversation. “A FEW ULTRA sophisticated jbugs can perform their spy- chores without being connected to a phone. The only limit to the “size of the instcumnent is battery power, Experts predict nuclear power will further reduce their size, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy put a bill before Congress in 1962, which would permit feder- al authorities, under orders of the Attorney, General, to wire- tap, with a court orde! Jn certain situations — such as espionage, subversion, murder, kidnapping, interstate racketeer- ing and narcotics — wiretapping ould be legal, and would yield egal court evidence. In espionage, the Attorney General could sidestep the court, lif he thought asking for a court lorder would endanger the na- tional interest, rae Under “the ‘bill, “all ofl | wiretapping would be . it hefe in Alabaina by, silled i Av few years ago, apeing a one wie was a maj nary agencies — private Sic, But recent strides in minia- "$10,0Q0 line pr Gvo years In oct federal prison, ae ;.’-But, the bill has met oppos “peyond the Capabil % ivats a Dub- and punishable by a ~ {Indicate page, name of newspaper, cily and stote.} ae THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS oleae THE BIRMINGHAM POST.~HERALD BIRMINGHAM | ALABAMA pate: S-10-64 Edition: SUNDAY Author: SUD GORDON gait, JON W, SLOOMED tiie: BAPBOMB; Rh: WLELTARVING Character: or Classification: Sebmitueg O68 BIRMINGHAM [J being tnvestyated = 2 re 7-33 fe} SEARCHED _..__. INDEXED SERIALIZED i CFE! AUG 17 1964 FSi— BIRMINGHAM __! } o.