M,I`5,Per secution ' bug ging and cou nter-surveillance

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PO: >Did you ever look for the bugs in your house. ? If not, why not ? I mean if

PO: >I thought that was happening to me, I'd search the. place from top to bottom,

PO: >I mean I live there I would know if anything was out of place.. If I was

PO: >really suspicious, I would call in one of. those bug detection teams which

PO: >have. those machines that pick up the transmitted radio waves. This

PO: >reminds me of. BUGS, that new programme on BBC1 on

 

That's exactly what we did. We went to. a competent, professional detective

agency in London, paid them over 400 quid to debug our house.. They used

scanner devices which. go to over 1 GHz and would pick up any nearby

transmitter in that range,. they also checked the phones and found

nothing... but if the tap was at. the exchange, then they wouldn't find

anything, would. they?

 

CS: >Doesn't this. suggest to you that there are, in fact, no bugs to be found?

 

You can. assume that they've done this sort of thing to other people in more

"serious" cases, where. they would know the targets would suspect the

presence of electronic surveillance. So they. will have developed techniques

and devices which are not readily detectable either. by visual inspection or

by electronic means. What those techniques. might be, I couldn't guess.

 

In this case, the existence of bugging. devices was clear from the

beginning, and they "rubbed. it in" with what was said by the boy on the

coach. It was. almost as if they wanted counter-surveillance people to be

called in,. who they knew would fail to detect the bugging devices, causing

loss of credibility to the other things I would. have to say relating to the

harassment.

 

I did all the things someone in my situation would do to. try to find the

bugs. In addition to calling in professional. help using electronic

counter-surveillance, I made a close visual. inspection of electrical

equipment, plus any points where. audio or video surveillance devices might

have been concealed. Of course, I found nothing. Normal. surveillance

"mini-cameras". are quite noticeable and require visible supporting

circuitry. It seems to me the. best place to put a small video surveillance

device would be additional to a piece of electronic. equipment such as a TV

or video. It would be necessary to physically break in to a property to. fit

such. a device.

 

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