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Thank you for posting the link. I listened to the audio at the IARU
website and was pleased to learn that the signals I had heard and
attempted to locate with HFDF are a type of radar.
Donald
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http://deepbackground.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/26/814625.aspx?p=1
The FBI's not-so-safehouse
Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:59 PM ET
Filed Under: Espionage
By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer
On the FBI's Kids' Page Web site, young G-Men-in-training are urged
to "go on an undercover assignment" to keep "Special Agent Bobby
Bureau" from blowing his cover.
But on the mean streets of Washington, D.C., the FBI doesn't always
seem to practice what it preaches.
Take the house, pictured below, which is located directly across the
street from the embassy of one of our former Cold War adversaries.
Most of the time, the large skylights in the attic of the house
appear opaque, as seen here:
Candid cameras
But in the late afternoon, when the sun sinks low, it shines through
those skylights like a movie-theater searchlight. Even a 10-year-old
gumshoe can see what's hiding in the attic:
Behind the three skylights, tucked behind black fabric, are three
video cameras. Their lenses are trained on the embassy across the
street. Passersby on the sidewalk below can see the lenses sparkling
in the sunlight, and so, presumably, can the former Cold Warriors
just across the street.
It's no surprise that there's close surveillance of foreign embassies
inside the U.S. The FBI employs hundreds of counter-intelligence
agents and employees, to keep an eye on friends and foes alike.
Journalists have reported on the surveillance programs for decades.
Back in 1988, for example, author Ronald Kessler described in "Spy
vs. Spy" how the FBI "takes photographs of everyone walking down the
street in both directions in front of" selected foreign embassies to
catch spies and potential traitors on camera. "Anyone walking near
the embassy is on film," Kessler wrote.
Nonetheless, you'd think the Bureau would be a little more careful
about safeguarding its own safehouse, and not blowing the cover of
its real-life Bobby Bureaus.
Bungled tradecraft?
How do I know it's an FBI facility? A simple web search confirmed it.
From my desk, I plugged the house's street address into a commercial
database that NBC and many media organizations use - legally, of
course - to conduct public-records searches. In about 30 seconds, and
for just about $2 in fees, I learned the names of three probable
residents of the house.
One of the residents had helpfully provided his employer's name.
There it was in black and white: "Company: FBI."
But that's not all. Under the job-title section, this same FBI
employee is described as "Clerk Really a Spy." [I edited out his name, below.]
Holy Efrem Zimbalist, Jr!
My curiosity piqued, I called the FBI employee, a.k.a. "really a
spy," to ask about this apparent breach of basic tradecraft. He's
working now out of the FBI's Memphis Field Office as a surveillance
specialist, and didn't seem thrilled with the call. He didn't deny
having lived at the D.C. house, but quickly passed me to his local
FBI media representative. The FBI spokesman in Memphis told me he
couldn't comment, other than to inform me that the employee worked
for the Bureau but not as a Special Agent.
In fairness to "really a spy," he probably never intentionally listed
his employer or his job title in the commercial database. Like most
public-records databases, it likely just sucked up some application
or paperwork the FBI employee had filled out years ago and now has
saved it forever. Why he ever apparently joked that his job was
"really a spy" is a separate issue.
The ease in identifying an FBI spyhouse and one of the Bureau's
counter-espionage employees is reminiscent of some investigative
reporting done by the Chicago Tribune two years ago. Tribune reporter
John Crewdson and a researcher revealed in their March 12, 2006,
article that they had identified the locations of two dozen CIA
safehouses and covert workplaces in the United States, plus the names
of 2,600 CIA employees. Their trick? They had done a series of
inexpensive, overlapping Internet searches, scooping up supposedly
secret addresses from public-record databases.
The FBI would not comment on this story. But out of an abundance of
caution, and on the advice of several senior U.S. officials, NBC News
has decided not to reveal the address of the FBI house or to name the
FBI employee. The officials caution that identifying the hapless
employee and his former stakeout location could compromise future
investigations. Even though many of the sources said it's a certainty
that officials at the nearby embassy "made" the FBI safehouse years
ago, NBC News reasoned that we could tell this story without
identifying the address, the employee or even the embassy in question.
I first made the FBI aware of this apparent tradecraft bungle more
than a month ago. At last check, the G-Men hadn't hidden the attic
video cameras. And the commercial database still lists the FBI
employee as "really a spy."
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the
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