RIVAL CAMPS IN SAME HOTEL HUNT ELECTRONIC SNOOPERS

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090034-9
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December 10, 1998
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July 7, 1964
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PHILADELPHIA, PA. BULLETIN FOIAb3b e. 718,167 S. 702,577 Sanitized - Approved For Rel Fror Edit Other Pag Page page Date: JUL 7 1964 Rival Camps in Hunt Electronic Snoopers San Francisco, July 7-The?versation for any listening do .Goldwater forces are snooping i vices. for Scranton electronic ears l How many such boo:e ; '.ad','-he which might be "listening" ford Goldwater forces rented? ,Goldwater secrets. "Enough," he said. And the Scranton side two Two floors down, i:r_ :'cr1 , 4' I 0 floors down in the Mark Hop- kins Hotel is snooping for any Goldwater ears straining for Scranton convcn`~on strategy. Both Goldwater and Scranton ,.,.._ a...:,, ton Dices a .. about electronic weal. -l ,I there." And a Scranton st.i ii member jerked his thuic'b up ins direction of Goldwater head- ,he qua rtcrs. head;'iarters are crammed intoiwe`tee' of Wires for doors in the hotel-. Both sides look distrustfully ,-.h is afraid that the other qt the welter of telephone anti has planted some kind of lis- TV cable strung thrc . 1'. L ie h,-)- tening device outside the oth-tel, fearful that son er's windows. have planted ? c,o- James M. Day, Goldwater op- vice so-n: whee. ;hT'C,s Intelligence Agency mail- 'for could' lie inc', rig forces had rented several ear The cable, jamming devices for installation than garden hose,rithes u;p in Goldwater's $112-a-dav suite'ric s1':il,well of the fire escap:,. sIV::Cs out windows and' ova :' on the 15th floor of the flop red:i~: the telephone irstalla-h kins. 1~>ht iron window ai ,i., "a lot of people are4 he whole building is f ee o rc convinced that commut.icationsI He said only, We recohntze h i' Dish-shaped TV : derv the situation exists." s;on for Kennedy in 1060. And the perch on ledges hi,-,11) aiv `' everybody here is convinced Black Boxes Rented the street where the upsar that l;e has some ;augct the t However, it was learned that, floors are set back from the- od,v,.. Ge;W& d(e'n't know i Goldwater men were. rentingkhuilding line. . v u some electronics - crammed i Goldwater and Scranton CO .i ainn cati , e preb ,hly boxes the size of small radios'staffs patrol their headquarters the ;~s1 inr,,e item of ex- to keep any tin ears from pick- to make sure no TV camera has pense to l;ol h Goldhs rater and ing up Goldwater conversations. ? been emplaced on a ledge to, Scranton forces. The devices are used to blot an;Peer into the Goldwater suite Fach had to nut r,p ,t Sn,f!1o` !electronic recording and are not where the senator and his aides deposit for PT&T installations. s !intended to be used to counter will talk grand strategy amid]"Before it's all over, sse fieurel, telephone wire taps. Chinese prints, lamps and white}that it will come to about l 25, A source in the Goldwater parchment sliding panels hidingl000, counting installation and; headquarters said like devices the bar, or into the walnut-pail-ruse," said Day. have been used in the senator'sjeled Scranton suite. I Each side figures to spend al- Washington campaign head-!Plans Secret most $250,000 in th; last round r quarters. of the struggle between Gold-, Ile described them' as "black; So intense has mutual suspi-i water and Scranton for the (boxes," which emit silent "sta cion become that neither cam " ppresidential nomination. tic" to distort the sound of conlwlll discuss its plans for tele )none and wa!'cic-talkie corn-' r:icntio7; tv;ecn the convex] nn floor and consmand head-' -ers housed lr een and .r.te trailers 6ut;: LO. Armed guards patrol the tail- Pa Co. wark .een install CPYRGHT Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300090034-9