Word: wiretap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buzzing on BUtterfield 8. The Broady wiretap case first hit the headlines last February, when police raided an East Side Manhattan apartment and discovered a secret listening post, equipped with the latest recorders and a direct (though unlisted) line to 100,000 telephones that spread like a monstrous run all over the ten-denier silk-stocking district. Two telephone-company employees, Carl Ruh, a tester, and Walter Asmann, a "frame-man" who made cross connections for the company, were found on the premises. They were fired by the company and arrested, along with Warren Shannon, an electrician, in whose name...
...short, Miami Story is just another gangstereotype-with one modern improvement. Mobster Flagg, a little Caesar who has abdicated in favor of law & order, gets evidence against his old friends with the latest thing in eavesdropping. Not content with keyhole-squint and transom-peer, with tape recorder or even wiretap. Flagg triumphantly secretes in the walls of the villain's office a complete closed-channel television transmitter...
...Allow the use of wiretap evidence in Federal court trials of cases involving the nation's security...
...Scheduled for debate this week in the House, a bill permitting court use of wiretap evidence in cases involving national defense and security, e.g., crimes of treason, sabotage, espionage and sedition. The evidence would be admissible only when the wiretap had been authorized in writing by the Attorney General. The House Judiciary Committee voted for the bill...
Such a law would not satisfy either the anti-wiretap liberal or the pro-wiretap law enforcer. But a middle way between those two schools is probably the right track for a nation that has to deal with both the Communist conspiracy and the chilling potentialities of technological surveillance...