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Five months ago, President Josip Broz Tito discovered conspiracy most foul lurking behind every wall. Tito's office and home had been bugged to the rafters, and the fact was only slightly less startling than the identity of the chief bugger: none other than Tito's Vice President, heir apparent and old comrade-in-arms, Aleksandar Rankovic...
...phone's own current and transmits both sides of any telephone conversation to a special receiver as far as 400 ft. away. Continental also offers a 4-in. dart transmitter that can be fired from a carbon-dioxide-powered dart gun into an area otherwise inaccessible to the bugger. Built to withstand the shock of impact, it will embed itself in a wall or tree, pick up nearby sound and radio it back over a range...
Other incoming callers, trying to reach the bugged phone, receive a busy signal. And because it is making no radio-frequency transmission, the infinity transmitter can be detected only by physical search, not by an anti-bugger...
First come the sign painters, serious little men with paintpots and newly issued brushes, their lips moving soundlessly with the memorized slogans: "Yankee go Home" or "Down with the Neocolonialists and Imperialists" or sometimes, when Britain is involved along with the U.S., "Bugger off, Brit!" Proficient only in the local language, be it Egyptian or Swahili, Russian or Malay, the painters are under considerable pressure. After all, if the epithet they must letter neatly on the embassy wall comes out in misspelled English, it will look bad for their country's image in the news photos published abroad...
...Bugger off," shouted Bogarde, misunderstanding his father's Shavian...