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...fingerprint expert testified that there were at least eleven points of similarity between the prints belonging to. Ray and those of the man held in London as Ramon George Sneyd. Ray's prints, said FBI Agent George Bonebrake, were on a rifle and telescopic sight abandoned in a store doorway near the shooting and also on binoculars wrapped with the weapon. Affidavits from merchants in Montgomery, Ala., and Birmingham pointed to Ray as the man who had purchased the binoculars, rifle and sight. "The tragic death of Dr. King was the working of the single hand of this...
...traces of heat and turbulence caused by the ship's passage through the waters. The U.S. employs ultrasensitive infra-red devices in satellites and planes to look down into the oceans and detect the scars. Submarines also give off what Navymen call "an electronic signature" that, like a human fingerprint, is unique. The signature is the sum total of the sub's sounds?the beat of its screw, thump of its pumps, rustle of its wake. To detect those signatures, the U.S. uses a variety of acute listening devices, including two networks of sonar cables, called Caesar and Sosus, that...
...mixing with civilians to avoid detection. Allied mopping up around Saigon may have yielded an important catch. The government professed "80% certainty" that one enemy body found was that of North Vietnamese Major General Tran Do, 48, political chief and second deputy commander of the Liberation Army. A final fingerprint check was awaited to determine if it really...
...classify bacterial troublemakers are complex, time-consuming and sometimes inconclusive. Often, before the results are in, the disease has spread or the patient has died. In the future, though, bacteria may lose their cloak of anonymity more quickly. Scientists have discovered that each species and strain has a distinctive "fingerprint" that can be used for virtu ally immediate identification...
...building itself was fairly overrun with other FBI types because the Bureau has long recommended it as a nice place to live. Subsequently, someone fingered Carter, whose FBI job was as a fingerprint clerk. Two days later, he was summoned before the agent in charge of his division. He was told that a formal complaint had been filed about his behavior and ordered to write a statement explaining why he had slept in the same room with a woman. Tom Carter wrote his report, which failed to satisfy his superiors. On Aug. 26 he was fired from...