* concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner."
*
* Among the facilities advantages are speed "through the use of laser
* restructuring, high-density interconnect, and reverse milling capability,"
* and a capability "to produce an integrated microphone ('microphone on a
* chip') in a single design/fabrication process."
*
* For many years, the FBI had been placing secret microphones on street-
* lamps, telephone poles, parking meters and empty automobiles parked near
* locations where its targets sometimes strolled. Such an outdoor array
* of surveillance devices planted near the Mulberry Street headquarters
* of John Gotti, for example, was an important weapon on the FBI's long
* and eventually successful investigation of one of New York City's most
* arrogant Mafia bosses.
Jeez, that sounds like plenty of electronic surveillance spy-power to me!
How about you?
The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of
microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance.
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
*