Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suspicious Signals. The man most entitled to take the bow is rumpled, bashful George Sterling, 49, a native of Peaks Island, Me., who built his first radio station in 1908, assisted in organizing a U.S. Signal Corps radio intelligence section in France in 1917, joined FCC in 1935, became RID's boss...
...experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...
...days after Pearl Harbor, RID's Portland, Ore. listening post picked up a suspicious signal, communicated it to Washington. Within six minutes, seven Adcocks throughout the country, fixed it somewhere in the District of Columbia. Next day, when the illegal transmitter came on again, RID tracked it straight to the German Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Snifters." For such close searching, RID has mobile direction finders. It also has "snifters," portable, one-man sets for smelling out the very room in which a transmitter is hidden. Several other useful instruments have been improved and developed by Sterling's group...
...RID located a gang servicing Axis submarines in the Caribbean in 1941. Twenty collaborators were arrested. RID found a Nazi station in West Africa which the British then put out of business. In 1942 RID sent personnel and radio direction finders to Brazil. They discovered an extensive German radio network there, helped round up 200 Nazi spies...