Author of "The Attack on Axnan Headquarters"
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Technical Services Agency,
Whidden, Glenn H., The Ear: Volume I, Technical Services Agency the
prestigious Technical Services Agency - Institute for Countermeasures
Studies and Glenn Whidden (CIA-ret); the current President of BECCA
OCCUPATION:
President of Technical Services Agency Inc., a private firm that
designs and markets electronic equipment for eavesdropping detection.
Holder of five U.S. patents. Part-time instructor, World Institute of
Security Enhancement, Greensboro, N.C. Author of A Guidebook for the
Beginning Sweeper; The Russian Eavesdropping Threat -- Late 1993; The
Axnan Attack; and five other books on the subject of
countereavesdropping.
BACKGROUND: Twenty-eight-year CIA
veteran, retired 1974. Worked in 50 countries worldwide. Field
experience in most types of espionage activity, including mail
intercepts, surreptitious entry and electronic eavesdropping. "An
operations type <media/whiddenoperationstype.aiff>." [audio 118k]
EDUCATION: Self-taught electrical engineer, government training in
clandestine operations.
MOST
INTRIGUING ASSIGNMENT: A few years ago Whidden returned to his former
haunt, Moscow, to sweep the offices of a private business. He managed
to ferret out a phone line bug, even though he worried --
unnecessarily, as it turned out -- that the eavesdroppers might be onto
him. His host, in a misguided attempt at courtesy, had hired for
Whidden a Russian driver, the sort who in the old days informed on
tourists for the KGB.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=glenn-whidden&pid=154813010
GLENN WHIDDEN (Age 83)
Of Fort Washington, MD died November 24, 2011 after a short illness. He
is survived by his wife Natalie; three sons Mark, David, and Thomas;
and numerous grandchildren. He will be buried in Manchester, NH in a
private family service. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made
to Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution, c/o Barrett
McKown, Treasurer; 3580 S River Terr; Edgewater, MD 21037.
Published in The Washington Post on November 29, 2011