Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Viet Nam and taxes, the hottest subject in Washington last week was bugs - the electronic, not the crawling variety. Concerned about convictions that may have been obtained with evidence illegally gathered by electronic eavesdropping, the Justice Department was reviewing all federal cases in which bugging might have been used. Lawyers argued that evidence against former Senate Aide Bobby Baker had been gathered by electronic devices; officials admitted that the FBI has been bugging the Dominican embassy since the 1950s; the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the constitutionality of a New York state law that permits police to bug...
Darts & Lights. Manhattan-based Continental Telephone Supply Co., Inc., a leader in the bug-and anti-bugging business, proudly advertises a postage-stamp-size, transistorized "007 Spy Transmitter" that can pick up whispered conversations and broadcast them to a conventional radio receiver located nearby. The 007 is powered by a tiny nickel-cadmium or mercury battery that will last for 60 hours. Another Continental bug looks like an exact copy of a telephone microphone. But substituted for that mike in a standard telephone, it operates indefinitely on the phone's own current and transmits both sides of any telephone...
Even as space-age missiles fostered the development of antimissiles, electronic bugs have already spawned a variety of anti-bugs. Continental's most advanced detector is a highly specialized AM and FM receiver rigged with red and green warning lights and an automatically rotating antenna. In a bugged room, its circuits will lock on to offending transmitters, its warning lights will blink and its antenna will point at the bug. Another detector resembles a small transistor radio, but the high-pitched whine from its speaker dies down as its whip antenna is swept toward a hidden bug. For those...
Just like Tracy. Just as antimissiles led to the development of the antimissile missile, the bug detectors and scramblers have spawned a sort of anti-bug bug. Perhaps the most remarkable and virtually undetectable bug on the market is Continental's "infinity transmitter." No bigger than a pair of back-to-back matchbooks, the transmitter can be quickly hidden inside the base of any telephone. Once installed, it can be monitored from thousands of miles away. The properly equipped eavesdropper need only dial the number of the bugged phone from any direct-dialing phone anywhere in the world...
...collapsed of a heart attack. Bailey, then 27, took over and won the case. After that, he was hired by the four suspects in U.S. history's biggest cash heist, the $1,551,277 Plymouth, Mass., mail robbery.* After one suspect had agreed to help postal inspectors bug the other suspects' phones, Bailey got the tipster to agree to tape-record his bugging conversations with the inspectors, who have not yet been able to get an indictment...