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...Tinker Bell in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan was an impishly playful pixie...
Last week Britons were shocked and titillated by tales of a far more ominous "Tinker Bell": an innocuous-looking five-story post office building, aptly code-named after the eavesdropping fairy, that reportedly houses an extensive government telephone-tapping operation behind its tightly drawn white curtains...
...Tinker Bell story first appeared in the leftist weekly New Statesman, which two weeks ago began publishing a serialized expose by Journalist Duncan Campbell, 27. His most startling claim was that the government tapped phones, bugged hotel rooms and even monitored diplomatic communications of delegates to last fall's Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe Rhodesia; this surveillance, he contended, was "authorized directly" by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders...
...Campbell, the eavesdropping center, located in London's fashionable Chelsea district, can monitor at least 1,000 telephone lines simultaneously. It is crammed with highly sophisticated electronic gadgetry, including a computer that allegedly can transcribe spoken words into printout. Backed up by separate operations specializing in planting bugs, Tinker Bell supplies information to Scotland Yard and two intelligence agencies. The targets of such surveillance, according to a former intelligence official quoted by Campbell, include not only suspected criminals but members of Parliament, trade union leaders, journalists, shipping companies and foreign embassies-"including the American...
SEPARATED. Mary Tyler Moore, 42, TV sitcom queen of the '70s; and TV Producer Grant Tinker, 53; after 17 years of marriage...